WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC
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Mission Statement
Worldwide Fistula Fund (WFF), founded in 1995, is dedicated to providing surgery, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation for women and girls suffering with obstetric fistulas. WFF is active in Niger, Uganda, Kenya, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.
About This Cause
Founded in 1995, the Worldwide Fistula Fund (WFF) is a not-for-profit public charity that provides free, comprehensive care and expert surgical services, rehabilitation and prevention, programs for women and girls suffering from obstetric fistulas in sub-Saharan Africa. Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury that occurs when a woman endures prolonged or obstructed labor - often lasting days - which rips a hole between a woman’s birth canal and her bladder or rectum. In most cases, the baby does not survive. An obstetric fistula causes a lifetime of incontinence, infection and ostracism. Between 50,000 and 100,000 women develop obstetric fistulas every year. WFF currently has programs in Niger, Uganda and Ethiopia. At the Danja Fistula Center (DFC) in Niger, WFF supports free fistula repair surgery, a prevention program and a reintegration program. The center also provides training and research opportunities for medical professionals. In late 2017 and after six years of dedicated service, Dr. Itengre, chief surgeon at Danja Fistula Center left Niger to launch WFF fistula-related programming in his home country of Burkina Faso where he established the nonprofit ARENA. Starting in late 2017 and continuing through 2018 WFF supported ARENA as it worked with local partners to provide free fistula surgeries through a system of organized camps. In Uganda, WFF partners with Terrewode, a local organization headquartered in Soroti, Uganda. Over the past 9 years, WFF has provided up to 60% of their annual funding and Terrewode has grown from a regional to national program. In August 2019, the Terrewode Women's Community Hospital opened and promises to triple Terrewode's capacity to serve up to 600 women with childbirth injuries per year. During 2018 WFF merged with the Seattle-based One by One (OBO). OBO had launched Let's End Fistula (LEF) Phase II in 2017, empowering survivors to imagine lives of economic independence and security. In partnership with Sarah Omega, a Kenyan fistula survivor and internationally recognized fistula advocate, they recruited and trained an extraordinary team of local survivors, provided seed money, and helped them launch individual and group income generating activities. In 2014, we launched our program in Ethiopia – the Mekelle Medical School Residency, a post-graduate residency program in obstetrics and gynecology with direct training in the prevention and treatment of fistulas.