These photographs were taken by documentary photographer Shaleece Haas (now Program Director of One by One) over three visits to Ethiopia from 2001-2004.
Locations include the northern region of Tigray, the eastern region of Harrar, and the capital, Addis Ababa.
Fistula is prevalent throughout the developing world and women are susceptible to getting fistulas anywhere there is a breakdown in the health system.
One by One provides grants to support the work of organizations working to treat and prevent obstetric fistula in the developing world. One by One’s primary grantee for 2007 is the Bugando Medical Center in Mwanza, Tanzania. They provide about 300 fistula surgeries each year and serve as the main training facility for doctors and nurses to learn fistula repair in Tanzania. This year One by One will provide the medical center with a new operating table to ensure they can continue to provide safe surgeries to women with fistula free of charge.
Mouse-over 'Notes' toward the bottom-right of the photo viewer to read a photo's caption.
Discover ways you can take action to help end suffering from Obstetric Fistula on One by One's Get Involved page.
The Women’s City Club of New York is presenting a screening of a unique, award-winning documentary that has been accepted at 15 film festivals throughout the world.
A WALK TO BEAUTIFUL tells the stories of five Ethiopian girls who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these girls are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. The trials they endure and their attempts to rebuild their lives
tell a universal story of hope, courage and transformation.
For more information, please go to www.walktobeautiful.com.
Friday, December 14th 5:00pm - 8:00pm
DOLBY SCREENING ROOM
1350 Avenue of the Americas (55th Street), 1st Floor
WCC will provide wine, cheese & soft drinks before the screening.
A discussion with the film’s producers will follow
$50
For more information, please call 212.353.8070 or email info@wccny.org
Submitted by Victoria on December 3, 2007 - 12:59pm.
The Minnesota House last Wednesday passed a bill that would allow the University of Minnesota to use state funds to conduct research using embryonic stem cells. The measure prompted a flurry of amendments by anti-choice Republicans designed to derail the bill.
Last week, nearly 80 conservative groups led by the Family Research Council asked President Bush to strip family planning clinics of their eligibility for Title X funds if they refer patients for abortions or share facilities with abortion providers -- which would bring the global gag rule home.
In Colombia, young women may be getting pregnant intentionally -- but not necessarily because they want to become mothers. Sexuality education advocates differ on how best to tailor a pregnancy prevention and sexual health curriculum to reach Colombian teens.
On May 26, the Wanderlust reproductive justice bicycle caravan will set off on an 1800 mile journey from New Orleans to New York City, meeting with and learning from reproductive justice activists along the way.
In honor of the Back Up Your Birth Control with Emergency Contraception (EC) Campaign, Pharmacy Access Partnership and RH Reality Check teamed up to launch an essay contest open to young people 14-24 years of age. Read the winning entry!
Have Safe Haven laws -- in which women can lawfully relinquish their infants within 30 days of birth -- become a substitute for universal health care and comprehensive sexuality education?
Illinois's reproductive justice advocates are backing one of the most comprehensive reproductive health bills the state has ever seen. And they're bringing in new allies for the fight.
For the first time since international adoption began growing in popularity two decades ago, so many countries have either shut their doors to adoption, tightened their rules or increased domestic adoption that it's now far harder to adopt overseas.
Far too much is made of a mother's obligations to her children and far too little of a child's love for her mother. If fetuses could love, I think they would be as passionate in defense of their mothers as born children become.
The majority of women in prison are mothers of minor children, and women are the fastest-growing prison population in the country. We need to recognize and treat with compassion the humanity of these mothers.
Religious fundamentalists' fear isn't that feminism will lead all women to reject motherhood, but rather that in the capacity for choice, women challenge the notions that rationalize male domination embedded in traditional meanings of motherhood.
