Hope for fistula patients

Unless you have walked in the shoes of an obstetric fistula survivor, or come close to (meaning you know someone who consistently leaks urine and faeces and thus walks around with a ‘funny’ smell), you will never fully grasp the pain, suffering and shame that victims and survivors alike battle with every single day.

 One such woman told me she hated visitors so much that any time she heard them knock on her gate and she was alone in the house, she would pretend she was not in.