The gift will fund the San Jose-based Fistula Foundation. The non-profit offers treatment and surgeries for obstetric fistula, a medical condition that can occur in women during childbirth and causes ...
An estimated 1 million women across Africa and Asia live with an obstetric fistula, a severe birthing injury, according to the Fistula Foundation. The injury is caused by obstructed, often dayslong ...
SAN JOSE (KGO) -- A South Bay charity is about to receive a big donation, thanks to comedian Louis C.K. and Jeopardy. Louis won $50,000 on celebrity Jeopardy! Wednesday on ABC7. Power players have ...
The Fistula Foundation is a powerful force that supports women in getting these transformative surgeries, truly ministering to the world’s “modern day leper.” Through generous donations, $598 provides ...
The Fistula Foundation, an American-based organization, which caters for women with birth complications, is set to launch an obstetric fistula treatment scheme in Zimbabwe, targeting women who find ...
Kate Grant is CEO of the Fistula Foundation. She says her dog Carly is the unofficial mascot of the foundation. The organization has a long-term plan to end fistula — it’ll take a lot of time and ...
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has done it again, making a game-changing donation of $15 million to the Fistula Foundation, a San Jose-based nonprofit on a mission to eradicate obstetric fistula, a ...
Donation will accelerate In It to End It—a vision to end, within a generation, the suffering caused by obstetric fistula across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia Under the new strategic plan, the Foundation ...
NEW YORK — The stories are heartbreaking - pregnant women in remote rural areas in Asia enduring a long or often difficult labor, some losing their babies. The women are left with incontinence and ...
One big challenge of being a foreign correspondent is to make the foreign less foreign, especially on issues that might seem esoteric or irrelevant to an American audience. The challenge was all the ...
INSPIRATION FOR HOW TO CREATE A LIFE OF PURPOSE, NO WOMAN LEFT BEHIND IS THE UNLIKELY STORY OF HOW ONE WOMAN LEAVES MADISON AVENUE AND TACKLES THE GLOBAL MATERNAL HEALTH CRISIS HEAD ON. The day a ...
ELDORET, Kenya -- In 1997, I was a new medical resident working in West Pokot County, an underserved, rural region in northwestern Kenya. One morning, a woman came forward with a condition I had never ...