Mother's Day Promotion

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20 Signed Copies Available!*

Give Mum a meaningful gift this Mother’s Day – an inspiring and hope-filled book signed by the author, Australian fistula surgeon Dr Andrew Browning AM.

A Doctor in Africa shares real experiences from maternal healthcare — not just the challenges, but the deep hope that drives this work forward.

It’s a hopeful and inspiring book that will stay with Mum well after she finishes reading it.

Every book sale supports safer births for women in Africa.

*Please note – there is a limit of 2 books per order.

If you would like to confirm we still have signed copies available, contact our friendly office team:

P.  02 9188 6799 (Wednesday to Friday)
E. info@barbaramayfoundation.com 

 

 

    Book Order Form

    Please enter ‘1’ in your preferred option below. Note – There is a limit of 2 signed books per order.

    Each book costs $30 plus postage.

    The first 20 orders will receive a signed copy!

    About the Book

    The Australian doctor saving the lives and dignity of thousands of women in Africa, one surgery at a time.

    From Ethiopia to Sierra Leone, Tanzania to Togo, Dr Andrew Browning has been helping women affected by obstetric fistulas – a debilitating condition resulting from obstructed childbirth – for nearly two decades. Andrew began his African career in the 1990s working with the late Dr Catherine Hamlin and since then has started the Barbara May Foundation, which has built hospitals, trained staff and established programs to heal fistulas and also prevent them from occurring around Africa in the world’s most disadvantaged women.

    More than one million African women are estimated to be suffering with obstetric fistulas. They are often made outcasts in their own community, unable to leave their homes and left with little prospect of a happy, fulfilling life. Andrew’s operations, and the spread of fistula-skilled surgeons he is training across the continent, don’t just relieve the emotinoal and physical pain of the women affected, but give them hope and a future.

    A Doctor in Africa is the uplifting story of Andrew’s life, from the challenges faced along the way to the stories of the women whose lives he has forever changed.

    All royalties from the sale of each book are donated to the Barbara May Foundation’s ongoing work enabling safe births and restoring women’s dignity in Africa.

    Published by Pan Macmillan Australia.

    Your support enables...

    Maternity Hospitals

    Building and running safe, fully equipped maternity hospitals, and training local midwives and doctors. 

    Fistula Treatment

    Providing specialist obstetric surgeries for women suffering with fistula injuries, while training more local surgeons in this specialisation.

    Community Education

    Educating rural and remote communities in East Africa about maternal health, to reduce deaths and injuries in childbirth and to find fistula patients.

    Happy Mother's Day!

    Thank you for your generosity and support.