Hilda suffered an obstetric fistula during childbirth as a teenager. Hear her story below. Hilda’s Story: From Ashamed to Ambassador! When Hilda was fifteen, she was married and soon fell pregnant. After three days of labour, Hilda was in critical...
Loretta is from Chad, right in the centre of Africa. She had been living with a fistula for three years and is now a widow. Loretta had already used all her savings to travel from Chad to Cameroon to be operated upon, but devastatingly, that operation...
Her Story – these profile stories cover the experiences of the women BMF are helping every day in Africa. This story does not include an image of Agness to honour her privacy. Agness, aged 25, was married in 2018 and got pregnant with her first child....
Meet Birtukan, who lives outside Barhirdar. During her fifth pregnancy her baby was dangerously small. Thankfully, she had been attending the clinic in the BMF sponsored hospital in town. During this time, severe fighting broke out around her village as part of a...
Meet Boui, 16, who lives in remote South Sudan. The young married bride had her first pregnancy and went into labour, however, after four days in labour her family were eventually persuaded to take her to the mission hospital several hours away. On arrival, Boui...
Meet Nembris who lives in remote Tanzania. Nembris is the second wife of her husband’s four wives. Thirty years ago, on her fifth pregnancy she struggled in labour at home, eventually delivering a stillborn child after four days of labour. She also...
