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Your tax-deductible donation will help restore the health and dignity of women suffering from devastating obstetric fistula injuries.

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For 17 years Genet suffered with a horrific childbirth injury, obstetric fistula - not knowing she could be treated.

This devastating childbirth injury leaves women leaking urine or faeces, sometimes both, often abandoned by their communities.

But obstetric fistula is treatable.

Your gift can help find and treat more women like Genet at one of the six Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia hospitals, where they can receive free, life-changing treatment and compassionate care.

Thank you for helping women like Genet reclaim their lives with a donation today.

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The health problem [obstetric fistula] I have faced has ruined my life. When I become tired the urine flows heavily. I heard many things my neighbours said about me. It made me feel ashamed.

- Genet

No woman should have to suffer for years from a treatable childbirth injury.

Obstetric fistula is most often caused by prolonged, obstructed labour without timely medical care. For women like Genet, the physical injury is devastating - but the emotional toll can be just as severe.

With surgery, rehabilitation and compassionate care, women can recover and rebuild their lives.

"One successful surgery can completely change a woman's life, ending years of physical suffering, social isolation and emotional trauma. Funding these surgeries is not just healthcare - it's a chance to restore dignity, hope and independence."


- Dr Bitew Adebe, Genet's fistula surgeon

"What drives my work on patient identification is turning the hopelessness to joy. Many women in Ethiopia are living with obstetric fistula. They are hidden, they are forgotten. I want to find these women and help them to get treatment."


- Tolera, Hamlin Patient Identification Officer

"We welcome patients warmly when they come for the first time. They become so happy when we give them Emaye's (Mother, Catherine's) blanket. Seeing women like Genet cured always fills me with happiness."


- Zewde, nurse aide

"One successful surgery can completely change a woman's life, ending years of physical suffering, social isolation and emotional trauma. Funding these surgeries is not just healthcare - it's a chance to restore dignity, hope and independence."


- Dr Bitew Adebe, Genet's fistula surgeon

"What drives my work on patient identification is turning the hopelessness to joy. Many women in Ethiopia are living with obstetric fistula. They are hidden, they are forgotten. I want to find these women and help them to get treatment."


- Tolera, Hamlin Patient Identification Officer

Donations made online in the USA will immediately receive a receipt by email from Every.org

Write your check to Myriad USA, write "Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation Friends Fund" in the memo section of the check, and send it to Myriad USA, 551 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2400, New York, NY 10176.

Donors in Canada will receive a tax receipt from Myriad Canada.

U.S. based supporters can make tax deductible contributions to Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation through its Friends Fund at Myriad USA (formerly King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS). Because Myriad is a public charity, within the meaning of Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the IRC, donors may claim the maximum tax benefits allowed by U.S. tax law for their contributions.

Canada-based friends and supporters can make tax deductible donations in Canada to support Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. Donors will receive a tax receipt from Myriad Canada. Myriad Canada (formerly KBF Foundation Canada), Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia and the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation are working together to raise funds in Canada for treatment of obstetric fistula injuries at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.

For every $1 donated, 70 cents goes directly towards Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia’s programs for the treatment and prevention of obstetric fistula, 13 cents is necessary for accountability and administration and 17 cents is invested in fundraising efforts which allows us to help even more women in future years.

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