WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC
EIN: 30-0139210
BASED: Saint Louis, MO, United States
CHARITY WEBSITE: Worldwide Fistula Fund
The Worldwide Fistula Fund (WFF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing life-saving obstetric fistula surgery for women in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing areas. Fistula, internal injuries that happen when women don't have access to proper medical care during or after childbirth, have devastating effects on a woman's physical, psychological and emotional health. But there is a treatment that ends this suffering.
And the Worldwide Fistula Fund provides it.
The Worldwide Fistula Fund will soon open a new fistula hospital in Danja, Niger. The Danja Fistula Center will not only offer a comprehensive range of short- and long-term services to women suffering from fistula but also function as a training and research center for medical professionals. Over the coming years, the WFF hopes to advance the message of hope and healing by replicating this Center in other developing nations around the world.
Within just five years, the Center will:
- provide care for up to 2,500 women with fistula
- train at least 30 doctors from Niger and other African countries in fistula repair and
- develop community-based programs to aid in the prevention of obstructed labor (the major cause of fistula).
To achieve these milestones, the WFF is currently working on a development campaign to raise the nearly $5 million needed to build and operate the Center.
Here are some more ways you can help:
1) Join us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/WorldwideFistulaFund
2) Join us on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/FistulaFund
3) Tweet the following message to your followers (or update your FB status):
Support maternal health initiatives in Africa by donating to the Worldwide Fistula Fund! Every bit counts! http://bit.ly/h08mHh
4) Join our team on Crowdrise to track how much you can raise for the Worldwide Fistula Fund
5) Sign up for our newsletter
6) Donate to the Worldwide Fistula Fund directly at our website: www.WorldwideFistulaFund.org





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