Our organization begin in 1995 as the Worldwide Fund for Mothers Injured in Childbirth.  In 2003, the name was changed to Worldwide Fistula Fund.

Some of our past activities include:

Construction of the Evangel VVF Centre, Jos, Nigeria:  This center is located at a busy general hospital in north-central Nigeria.  Between 300 and 400 women receive life-changing VVF surgery at this center annually. 

The Mercy Maternity and Fistula Center, Mankessim, Ghana.  After years of work, this new Center is to open in 2006.  provided operating room equipment (operating tables and monitors), surgical instruments, consulting visits, even advice on architecture.

The Aberdeen Clinic and Fistula Center, Freetown, Sierra Leone opened in May 2005.  provided instruments, computer equipment, funds for surgery, and on-site consulting.  The ACFC has already done several hundred VVF repairs. 

The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia has received computer support and operational funding from . 

has actively assisted in VVF activities of the International Continence Society, sponsoring publications and a major international seminar on VVF.  We have collaborated extensively with the University of Ghana Medical School, and have been involved in training surgeons in Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.  We are currently involved in the production of training manuals, and have multiple publications in medical journals and textbooks, national magazines, and local media.

We have provided invited expert consultation to President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, to the United Nations Population Fund, World Health Organization, the United States Congress, a variety of media outlets including ABC and BBC television, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Gates Institute of the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. 

We are also sponsors of Engel Entertainment's "Walk to Beautiful", a stunningly beautiful film about obstetric fistula.  You can learn more and even download a part of the film here.