Hamlin Fistula UK

Our Friendship Link Club, SI Stourbridge, has supported the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for many years. Woking Soroptimists are contributing to the effort to give blankets to women who go to the hospital for repair surgery following childbirth injury. We sent a first batch of blankets in 2024, a further 20 blankets in October 2025 and we have just completed 16 blankets to go out to Ethiopia this month. The hospital aims to end fistula in Ethiopia for good. It always needs blankets for the women who come for fistula repair surgery and for childbirth. The Hamlin College of Midwives in Addis Ababa trains midwives to BSc degree level. They go on to work in rural health centres across Ethiopia and change countless women’s lives.