Your regular support changes lives
Sustainable Development Goals. Obstetric fistula changes the lives of the women who live with it. Grief, loneliness, confusion, isolation; a life of needless suffering that leaves women with emotional and physical scars.
By eradicating fistula, through treatment and prevention, we will move towards a fairer and more just world for all. As a Hamlin Regular Giver, you play an important role in helping us achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Here's how you are helping achieve the SDGs
Goal 3 - Health and Wellbeing
You are helping to provide treatment and rehabilitation to those living with a fistula, helping to restore their health and overall wellbeing.
Over 60 years ago, Dr Catherine Hamlin realized that adequate access to maternal healthcare can spare a woman the pain and isolation of fistula - giving her the chance to finally have a live baby. By ensuring a woman’s maternal health and wellbeing, you’re ensuring her long term happiness and safety.
Goal 10 - Reduced Inequalities
Ethiopian women living in rural areas are at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing their human right to sexual and reproductive healthcare. With greater access to healthcare comes fewer instances of obstetric fistula.
You are playing a part in training midwives from rural areas, allowing Hamlin to deploy them back to their communities - ensuring no woman is left behind. When a Hamlin Midwife arrives at a clinic, new cases of fistula drop to almost zero in nearby villages.
Goal 8 - Work and Economics
The overpowering smell of a fistula leaves women isolated from their communities, and work is rarely a possibility. Desta Mender, Hamlin’s rehabilitation and reintegration facility, equips women with skills training; enabling them to return to their villages and live independently with dignity and choice following their life-restoring treatment. This training is provided completely free of charge because of generous supporters like you.
Goal 4 - Quality Education
Women at Desta Mender don’t just learn skills for business. Patients also attend literacy and numeracy classes, rebuilding their self-worth through educational empowerment and helping them regain independence.
Goal 5 - Gender Equality
The gendered disadvantage of obstetric fistula cannot be overlooked. Being isolated has vast repercussions on these women and their communities. The cycle of inequality continues as they are pushed further and further from society.
You are helping to reduce the inequality felt by these women by supporting treatment and rehabilitation that empowers and helps them overcome these obstacles.
Goal 1 - No Poverty
The ongoing cycle of disadvantage often felt by women with fistula can be stopped. Access to safe and ongoing maternal healthcare, like that provided by our Hamlin Midwives can help women make informed choices about their sexual health, giving her space for choice and the chance to have a healthy productive family.
Patients rehabilitation and reintegration empowers women with job skills they may not previously have had, helping reduce income gaps and providing sustainable lines of work for herself and her family.
Finally, by treating and healing women who have needlessly suffered for such a long period of time we are helping to break this cycle. This is thanks to supporters like you!
By being part of our valued Hamlin Regular Giver community, you are taking a huge step towards a fairer and more just world for all. Thank you.
