Alone in her rural home, Tesfanesh laboured for two agonising days before tragically delivering a stillborn baby.

Soon after, Tesfanesh developed one of the worst childbirth injuries imaginable - an obstetric fistula - which left her incontinent. 

“Immediately after the stillbirth, I began to experience uncontrollable urine flow. I hoped it would stop over the next few days, but it didn’t. I am still suffering.” - Tesfanesh 

After six years of pain, suffering and isolation, a Hamlin Patient Identification Officer found Tesfanesh hidden away at home. She was taken to Hamlin’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital where she was given a beautiful Comfort Package to mark the start of her healing journey. 

Her healing continued with fistula repair surgery and loving care to restore her dignity and confidence. 

Every woman arriving at one of the six Hamlin Fistula Hospitals for life-changing surgery receives a beautiful Comfort Package.

Your gift of a Comfort Package includes:

• A beautiful Hamlin blanket to wrap a woman in love and care
• Hygiene items so a woman can keep herself clean, often for the first time in years
• A new nightgown and slippers, an utter luxury for a woman who arrives wearing the only stained clothes she owns
• A lovely homecoming dress so a woman looks and feels like the new person she’s become when she returns home.

Buy a Comfort Package TODAY to wrap another woman like Tesfanesh in love.