FISTUL-AID
For a NEW life
What we do
Due to a lack of adequate infrastructure and easily accessible medical care, many African women give birth in difficult conditions: labor sometimes lasts 8 days.
The child is then stillborn and many parturients - if they survive - then suffer from "Fistulas": that is to say abnormal holes passing between bladder and vagina and/or between rectum and vagina.
Rape is also a cause of fistulas. Completely incontinent, they give off a nauseating odor and are rejected by everyone: they are condemned to be outcasts or “living dead”.
There are 2 to 3 million of them in Africa, including 100,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Only surgery can cure them. Due to lack of money, they do not consult or often see it late, which reduces their chances of recovery.
They can be operated on in the Fistula clinics of Kinshasa (FIKIN) and Kisangani (FIKIS). Fistul-Aid aims to make these treatments accessible to all fistula sufferers, especially the most deprived.
150 Euros are enough to cure a fistula... It's not much to give a woman back the scent of life, the smile and the ability to have other children.
The child is then stillborn and many parturients - if they survive - then suffer from "Fistulas": that is to say abnormal holes passing between bladder and vagina and/or between rectum and vagina.
Rape is also a cause of fistulas. Completely incontinent, they give off a nauseating odor and are rejected by everyone: they are condemned to be outcasts or “living dead”.
There are 2 to 3 million of them in Africa, including 100,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Only surgery can cure them. Due to lack of money, they do not consult or often see it late, which reduces their chances of recovery.
They can be operated on in the Fistula clinics of Kinshasa (FIKIN) and Kisangani (FIKIS). Fistul-Aid aims to make these treatments accessible to all fistula sufferers, especially the most deprived.
150 Euros are enough to cure a fistula... It's not much to give a woman back the scent of life, the smile and the ability to have other children.
3.000.000
women are affected
150€
are enough to treat a patient
1845
got medical care (2022)
