Our newsletters provide updates about the life-changing work of Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. We are excited for you to stay in touch about how you are helping to make childbirth injuries a thing of the past. View Online Brochure Download Online Brochure 2021 April Newsletter 2020 - A Year In Review

Hamlin's Patient Identification Program helped restore Sekina's health & dignity after she suffered a heartbreaking fistula injury.

Amina suffered from fistula for 25 years. After being treated at Hamlin's Harar Fistula Hospital she now has a second chance at life.

Name: Dr Leta Gedefa ArarsaJob: Fistula Surgeon at Hamlin's Harar Fistula HospitalStart date: September, 2020 Dr Leta has been working tirelessly to make Dr Catherine Hamlin’s dream of an Ethiopia free of obstetric fistula a reality. During his days as a medical student, Dr Leta’s life was profoundly affected by the mothers he cared for and got to […]

We have to eradicate Ethiopia of this awful thing that’s happening to women: suffering, untold suffering in the countryside. I leave this with you to do in the future, to carry on.  – Dr Catherine Hamlin Finding the hidden women of Ethiopia We exist to make sure women who have survived the heart-breaking and preventable childbirth […]

On International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, we look at obstetric fistula in Ethiopia and the progress we've made so far to end fistula.

Last year, Hamlin closely considered COVID-19’s impact on maternal health care in Ethiopia. One year on, what has happened since then?

A message from Carolyn Hardy; Chief Executive Officer, Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation: As we celebrated Dr Catherine Hamlin’s extraordinary life last month, we reflected on the many measures of her incredible impact over the past six decades. The most important is the 60,000 women’s lives transformed by Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia and the declining rate of […]

Through the Hamlin Model of Care, Fatuma was able to undergo fistula repair surgery at Hamlin and gain a new start to her life.