Surgical Scousers

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Snowdon Challenge, 7 April 2019
We are helping thousands of African women to access quality healthcare services.

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On the 7th of April, the Surgical Scousers society team will be hiking Mount Snowdon carrying the weight of a full term pregnancy strapped to our stomachs.

This is all in aid of FREEDOM FROM FISTULA. This is an amazing charity that gives emergency care to women in childbirth across Africa. A fistula is a complication from obstructed childbirth that leaves these poor women with large gaps from their bladder or rectum to their birth canal causing them to become incontinent and in constant pain. (and some women live with this for 40 years!!!!)

This issue leaves them exiled from the communities they live in. Their husbands, friends and families abandon them and they are left completely alone. In the UK, you don't have to think twice about the care you are guaranteed to receive during labour. There are very few complications that occur. In Africa, these women have prolonged week long labours, have the walk miles and miles to their nearest hospital, still in labour, and 9/10 times the baby dies inside of the mother.

This is not okay. At the very core of biology the reason humanity exists is to reproduce, and these women have tragically lost the ability to even carry out this basic human function.

Freedom From Fistula offers these women emergency healthcare during their labour, fixes the fistulas that have been a complication of previous labours and offer these women psychological support for what they have been through. Furthermore, the charity trains these women in basic skills that will enable them to return home and get a job to provide for themselves in the future.

To us, there really isn't anything more empowering then hearing the stories these inspirational women have to offer, just go to http://www.freedomfromfistula.org.uk/about-us/stories to read yourself.

Especially on a day like today, please think about the simple things we have in our lives that we are so so lucky to have. Lastly, please consider donating in the link below, we really believe in this charity (if you cant tell), these women deserve to bring up a child safely. Also, please spread the word. This is something that is not commonly known about and this needs to change!!

Thank you  so much xxxx💗



Just £1000 pays for life changing fistula care including surgery, rehabilitation and community reintegration

£200 pays for a solar station providing a patient with a sustainable income for her family

£100 pays towards a safe delivery for mother and baby

£50 pays for a patient to be educated in numeracy and literacy during their stay

£2 pays for a day's meals for a patient.  We feed each patient 3 nutritious, healthy and balanced meals each day to help build their strength.

100% of every donation you make goes directly to helping those in need, our administration costs are met entirely by our founder.



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About the charity

Freedom From Fistula helps women and children in Africa by providing; free surgeries for women and girls suffering from obstetric fistula caused by obstructed childbirth; free and accessible maternity care; children's outpatient clinics and training for nurses and doctors.

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