The Fistula Foundation

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Phone: 866-756-3700

1900 The Alameda
Suite 500
San Jose
California 95126
USA
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Target demographics: More than 2 million women worldwide are currently suffering from the childbirth injury obstetric fistula.

Direct beneficiaries per year: Thousands of women are being healed each year, thanks to funding from the Fistula Foundation.

Someone who had 3 hours of volunteer time could: Become a Fistula Foundation Circle of Friends Ambassador. Do you feel others should hear more about these women whose lives are devastated by fistula? You can be their voice. Our popular Circle of Friends program is designed for people like you who want to do something more. Bring YOUR circle of friends together and make a difference. It's that simple. Help others in your community learn about our global work and efforts to restore dignity, one woman at a time. And why not have fun while you're at it? Invite your friends, colleagues and neighbors to a fundraising or informational event such as a video screening or evening out featuring stimulating discussion. For more information, please visit our website.

Mission:

We are dedicated to raising awareness of and funding for fistula repair, prevention, and educational programs worldwide to help eradicate fistula.

Results:

The Fistula Foundation is the largest private charitable foundation supporting fistula treatment globally. Wherever possible, we work to empower dedicated local doctors in developing countries. We fund fistula surgery, training of surgeons, building of hospitals and operating rooms dedicated to fistula surgery, “mobile” care clinics where no hospitals exist in rural regions of the world and outreach and education to let women know where they can receive treatment.

Would you like to know more? The real heroes are the partner organizations, the surgeons and the patients. We find them inspiring. All around the world, miracles are happening for young women living places like Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Take an important moment now to visit our website. Learn about the challenges of healing women in war zones, and how women struggle to get through each day in developing countries. Dedicated local surgeons will share their personal perspectives. And we’ll give you specifics about how your dollars are being put to work.

Why wait? Take the journey with us right now. Let it inform you, and perhaps deepen your own life and perspective.

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Hope4all

03/09/13

The article I read on fistula broke my heart and I saw I could help by donating monthly to give one woman the surgery she needs. I am working poor with a teenage daughter, but we have enough to get by each month. I have known what abuse and poverty feels like. I wanted to help, because even at my ... more »

robtessler

02/12/13

About ten years ago I read an op ed column by Nicholas Kristoff in The Times about the devastating problem of obstetric fistula in the Third World. It opened my eyes and started me on a journey to help in whatever way I could. That was the beginning of my involvement with the Fistula Foundation. The... more »

Susie Wilson

02/09/13

I keep a bumper sticker tucked into the corner of a mirror in the small vestibule of my home which everyone can read upon entering: It says in bright colors, “ A WORLD that is GOOD for WOMEN is GOOD for EVERYONE.” These 11 words summarize for me why it is an honor and privilege to serve on the ... more »

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