Our 2010 Campaign:

Fistula happens because most mothers in poor countries give birth without any medical assistance.

It costs $450 to fix a fistula.

In 2010, $10,000 was raised for the Fistula Foundation an organization helping women suffering from obstetric fistula, including a $5,000 grant from the Oak Foundation. Obstetric fistula is a result of obstructed labor during childbirth and lack of medical intervention. This pressure creates a hole (fistula) making it impossible for a woman to hold her urine, and sometimes bowels. Her baby is unlikely to survive. If she survives, a woman with fistula is likely to be rejected by her husband because of her foul smell. She will be shunned by her community and forced to live an isolated existence. These women suffer profound psychological trauma resulting from their utter loss of status and dignity, in addition to suffering constantly from their physical internal injury.

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