Worldwide Fistula Fund

WFF began by funding multiple programs and training doctors across sub-Saharan Africa to provide quality fistula repair surgeries. During these early years, we simultaneously raised capital funds to build a new, desperately needed model fistula hospital for West Africa. In 2009, 2010 and 2013, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, Nicholas Kristof, wrote articles in the New York Times about WFF’s mission and goal to build this hospital.

In 2017, we expanded our mission from a focus on treating and empowering women and girls with obstetric fistula to helping women with any childbirth injury. The decision was largely fueled by the high number of women coming to us who thought they had fistula but had pelvic organ prolapse or another injury.