Obstetric fistula remains a little-known issue, even though it affects an estimated one million women worldwide. Your advocacy helps shine a spotlight on this issue so that we can end the needless suffering of women with fistula. With the click of a button, you can tell a friend and spread the word!
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Fistula Foundation has just been chosen by @nickkristof as a winner of the 2024 Holiday Impact Prize! The @kristofimpact prize connects readers who want to help but don’t know how and organizations that need resources but aren’t well-known.
Fistula Foundation has just been chosen by @nickkristof as a winner of the 2024 Holiday Impact Prize! The @kristofimpact prize connects readers who want to help but don’t know how and organizations that need resources but aren’t well-known.
Fistula Foundation is a female-led nonprofit organization focused on treating women who needlessly suffer from a devastating childbirth injury called obstetric fistula.
No other organization brings healing to more women with fistula than Fistula Foundation. The organization recently surpassed 100,000 surgeries provided to women across 35 countries since 2009.
Follow along on @fistula_foundation's journey to build a world that ensures every woman suffering from obstetric fistula receives the compassionate care that she deserves.
Fistula Foundation hit a major milestone, officially passing the 100,000 mark in the number of surgeries that it has provided since 2009! 🎉
Trying to imagine how momentous that is? The team could fill the entire Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California, with all of the women who’ve received free surgeries. 🌹
This six-figure landmark reinforces the Foundation’s legacy of delivering life-changing transformations to tens of thousands of women who would otherwise still be suffering. 🧡
All lives have equal value, but poverty is sexist.
Particularly in sub-Saharan Africa:
❗ Girls receive less schooling than boys
❗ Women have far less political and economic power than men
❗ Women are at greater risk of intimate partner violence
And the list goes on. What’s worrisome: Less than 1% of the $2 billion that GiveWell—the leading effective altruism organization—has directed to organizations that it deems effective has been deployed to address the symptoms of gender inequality. Poverty is not equal, and its structural inequality negatively impacts women and girls.
A gender lens is necessary to address extreme poverty, and this is missing from the effective altruism movement.
If you’re interested in reading more about this topic, check out Fistula Foundation CEO Kate Grant’s article on @InsidePhilanthropy's webpage: https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/effective-altruism-needs-a-gender-lens
#EffectiveAltruism #GenderEquality #GlobalHealth #charities #giving #womensempowerment
In July of 2023, Fistula Foundation launched the Fistula Foundation Treatment Network (FFTN) in Tanzania—their fourth countrywide treatment network—to advance our vision to end the suffering caused by fistula. The goal of each FFTN is to reduce and ultimately eliminate the wait for treatment by connecting all women in all parts of a country with timely, high-quality care.
Here’s the impact so far:
🧡 1,250+ surgeries provided to women
🧑🏽⚕️ 10 surgeons trained in fistula management
👩🏾⚕️ 86 nurses trained in fistula management
🇹🇿 1 community outreach partner added to the network
This year, their five hospital partners within the FFTN in Tanzania aim to provide more than 1,400 surgeries for women in need across all regions of the country, but they need your support to continue their vital work.
For a limited time, all contributions—up to a total of $100,000—will be MATCHED to support surgeries for women across the FFTN in Tanzania. Visit https://fistu.la/sep24 to donate today.
💰Medical procedures can be expensive. That cost keeps the most vulnerable people among us from getting the care that they need to live a better, healthier life.
🧡 Did you know that Fistula Foundation’s Love a Sister program provides women with the transformative healing that they need to have a bright future? The Foundation’s work enables women to regain their health and hope!
Follow @fistulafoundation for more information on how you can help.
#fistulafoundation #womenshealth #maternalhealth #endfistula #womenscharity #loveasister
BIG NEWS! 🎉 @fistula_foundation is a finalist in the Health and Healing category for the 2024 .ORG Impact Awards!
The #OIAs highlight mission-driven organizations for their dedication to making the world a better place. Fistula Foundation provides treatment to thousands of women each year—treatment that achieves transformative, immediate, and permanent impact in women’s lives and in their communities. 🧡
#ORGImpactAwards #ORGInAction #fistula #nonprofit #fistulafoundation
@fistula_foundation was just awarded a spot in the Small and Mighty category of Fast Company's World Changing Ideas list! I am proud to be a supporter of this innovative organization that is committed to ending the needless suffering of women with fistula.
Check out the full list here: https://www.fastcompany.com/world-changing-ideas/list
#EndFistula #FistulaFoundation #WomensCharity #GivingBack #GlobalHealth #MaternalHealth #WomensHealth #InItToEndIt #FCWorldChangingIdeas
Giving birth should not be a death sentence—or a life sentence. Yet, for many women, it still is. For every woman who dies during childbirth, an estimated 30 suffer severe and ongoing complications such as obstetric fistula.
@fistula_foundation CEO Kate Grant penned an article for @usnews on why the global community must do more to end the senseless death and suffering of mothers and would-be mothers. Read it now using the link in our bio!
#EndFistula #FistulaFoundation #WomensCharity #GivingBack #GlobalHealth #MaternalHealth #WomensHealth #InItToEndIt
Imagine constantly leaking urine out of your vagina because you delivered a baby without receiving proper medical care.
This childbirth injury, called obstetric fistula, afflicts 1 million women in sub-Saharan Africa & Asia.
Join me in supporting @fistula_foundation, the leader in providing the only cure for fistula: surgery.
#EndFistula #FistulaFoundation #WomensCharity #GivingBack #GlobalHealth #MaternalHealth #WomensHealth #InItToEndIt
If it sounds like a horror story, that’s because it is.
1. Your baby dies.
2. You become incontinent.
3. Your husband, family, and friends abandon you.
This is the common arc of a fistula patient’s life. The good news? There’s a cure for women who are suffering.
Learn more: fistu.la/donate
#EndFistula #FistulaFoundation #WomensCharity #GivingBack #GlobalHealth #MaternalHealth #WomensHealth #InItToEndIt
Check out/donate to @fistula_foundation. This female-led org is saving women like Jameela, Hurairah, and Stellah from a lifetime of suffering with debilitating childbirth injuries like obstetric fistula.
Learn how to contribute 👉🏽 fistu.la/donate
#EndFistula #FistulaFoundation #WomensCharity #GivingBack #GlobalHealth #MaternalHealth #WomensHealth #InItToEndIt
Fistula Foundation has just been chosen by @nickkristof as a winner of the 2024 Holiday Impact Prize! The @kristofimpact prize connects readers who want to help but don’t know how and organizations that need resources but aren’t well-known.
Fistula Foundation has just been chosen by @nickkristof as a winner of the 2024 Holiday Impact Prize! The @kristofimpact prize connects readers who want to help but don’t know how and organizations that need resources but aren’t well-known.
Fistula Foundation hit a major milestone, passing the 100,000 mark in the number of surgeries provided since 2009! 🎉
Trying to imagine how momentous that is? The team could fill the entire Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, CA, with all of the women who’ve received free surgeries. 🌹
All lives have equal value, but poverty is sexist.
A gender lens is necessary to address extreme poverty, and this is missing from the effective altruism movement.
Read about this issue here: https://fistu.la/ealens
💰 The cost of healthcare keeps vulnerable people from getting the care that they need.
🧡 Did you know that Fistula Foundation has a program that sends donations directly to partners that provide medical services to women in need?
Follow @Fistula_Fdtn to learn how you can help!
I am excited to see that @Fistula_Fdtn is being recognized for their its world-changing work! 🌍 Join me in supporting this incredible organization as it fights to end fistula. 🧡
See the full list of world-changing honorees here: https://www.fastcompany.com/world-changing-ideas/list
#FCWorldChangingIdeas
Giving birth should not be a death sentence—or a life sentence.
@Fistula_Fdtn CEO Kate Grant penned an article for @usnews on why the global community must do more to end the senseless death and suffering of mothers and would-be mothers: bit.ly/46ngLdH
Imagine constantly leaking urine out of your vagina b/c you delivered a baby without receiving proper medical care.
This childbirth injury afflicts 1 million women in Africa & Asia.
Join me in supporting @Fistula_Fdtn, the leader in providing the only cure: surgery.
1. Your baby dies.
2. You become incontinent.
3. Your husband, family, and friends abandon you.
This is the common arc of a fistula patient’s life. Learn more: fistu.la/donate
Check out/donate to @Fistula_Fdtn. This female-led org is saving women like Jameela, Hurairah, and Stellah from a lifetime of suffering with debilitating childbirth injuries like obstetric fistula.
Learn how to contribute 👉🏽 fistu.la/donate
