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This upset me quite a bit. I cannot believe (myself included) that we are more caught up with money, iphones and the dizzle dazzle while people are going through this.
There should be classes about poverty and documentaries like this shown in all of our secondary schools. If people are brought up with some perspective things might be a little different.
Looks interesting. I've bookmarked it to watch next week as I'll be offline for a few days. Thanks.Originally Posted by Wakeupcall
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner'?
Someone I know had had a fistula after a difficult birth and even with readily available hospital treatment it was very difficult to cope with. All is well now, after two years.
I watched a documentary a couple of nights ago on women with HIV in Uganda, who make Memory Books to leave to their children. It's a social project, people train in how to make the books with your children. They seem to be a comfort to the children left behind. Its a disaster for a child to lose both parents to AIDS. There are 45,000 HIV positive women making the books, they said.
It was less depressing than its sounds.
Haven't time to look in detail at this hour, wakeupcall, but that site looks amazing! What's the story on it, do you know?
... and yes the site is fantastic!Ayehu, Almaz, Zewdie, Yenenesh and Wubete suffered through prolonged, unrelieved obstructed labor in a country with few hospitals and even fewer roads to get to them. Although they survived the often-fatal childbirth experience, they were left with a stillborn baby and feeling, as Ayehu tells us, that “even death would be better than this.”
The obstructed labor has left each of them incontinent. We discover Ayehu, 25, living in a makeshift shack behind her mother’s house where she has hidden for four years, shunned by siblings and neighbors alike. She hesitantly begins her journey on foot, but once she arrives at the Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, she realizes for the first time that she isn’t the only person in the world suffering from this problem. At the hospital we meet Almaz, a woman also in her 20s who was abducted by her now-husband in a village market and has suffered from double fistula for three years.
Zewdie, 38, has five children longing for their mother to be well. Though abandoned by her husband, Zewdie is supported by the strong extended family that surrounds her. As for Wubete and Yenenesh, both 17, early marriage and their small physical stature (the result of undernourishment and heavy labor) determined the tragic outcome of their first pregnancies.
For these two girls a cure is not simple. We’re with them as they struggle with disappointing news and later as their youthful determination triumphs. We follow each of these women on their journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, where they find solace for the first time in years, and we stay with them as their lives begin to change.
Sorry for my incoherence but it was very late - I meant the story on the site itself! Not to worry - there's a whole weekend ahead to check it out. Many thanks for bringing this site to my attention - some extremely interesting looking items on there.... and yes the site is fantastic!
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