Local SF peeps your tights please.

Helloo Everyone,
Thank you so much for all your support and contributions so far.  it really has been great and much appreciated.  If you are looking for different way to support the women here it is.


Yes your pantyhose and tights can help too!  They are essential items for the women waiting to have surgery. See the direct request from the hospital below:

"These items are your old tights (pantyhose) with holes or runs in them – no matter… we use them.

The patients still leaking and going home use the top ends for holding pads in place, they have no underwear.....

The leg parts we also use, in the past we said cut off the legs (of the tights not the ladies!) and post them, now we use the legs too. We braid them into rugs!

So this is a cry for your help – tights, pantyhose, stocking, any color, holes or no holes"

SO EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE PANTYHOSE OR TIGHTS TO DONATE AND I WILL COLLECT THEM AND TAKE THEM WITH ME!

If you would also like to contribute to my project to help the women with Obstetric fistulas please go to:

http://www.indiegogo.com/Antoinette-to-Ethiopia

Thanks!

Flights Booked!

I have booked my flights and so I just need to get my jabs!  23 days to go!!

A big plan to reduce Fistulas in Ethiopia

Hospital begins Midwifery Training to Help Prevent Fistula

Many supporters of the Hospital ask how they can help prevent fistula. This is an issue near and dear to Dr. Hamlin's heart, from the early days of the Hospital. Indeed, she and her late husband Reginald originally came to Ethiopia to start a Midwifery program and Dr. Hamlin is now committed to starting such a program in conjunction with the Hospital. 


Her goal, and that of midwives Annette Bennett and Ruth Kennedy, is to help place midwives in villages near the five mini-hospitals to help women in labor, thus preventing fistula and other childbirth injuries. This is an exciting step forward.


The Hospital has started the building of classrooms, skill laboratory and refurbishment of dormitories for students, also a canteen and common room.


The goal is to open the college for BSc level midwives in the fall of this year. The initial intake will be about fifteen and then twenty each year afterwards. The clinical and classroom tutors have been employed and a visiting Professor, Dr. Ann Thomson from Manchester UK, has helped the team to develop an up to date curriculum. 

Fundraising for the Trip has started!!!

http://www.indiegogo.com/Antoinette-to-Ethiopia?c=activity

I am off to Ethiopia in one month now, just 30 days to go. Time is moving swiftly!  


So...... please take a look at the link above and see why and how to support my project.  The link has all the info but if you have any questions, just let me know.

Ps. If you have friends or family who you think might be interested in contributing to my project PLEASE forward.

Thank you!

Why I am going?

When I signed on with Salaam Garage to go to Ethiopia, I was not sure absolutely why.  

Of course I wanted to go to Africa and this would be my first visit.  I was excited.  At the same time I was concerned how I/we would be received.  

So......I finally watched "A Walk to Beautiful"and this made it crystal clear.  I am going to help the women with Obstetric Fistula (please see the section to your right for a description this condition).  I know it seems obvious but I was not sure how I would be able to help.  I found out that help in all shapes and forms are desperately needed, so whichever way I could help, I was now sure would be beneficial.

The film really bought home to me the intimate story, of one women who goes about her daily life dealing continuously with incontinence.   Continuous incontinence??.....  in roaring hot temperatures, dealing with being cast out by your family and friends because of the stench from the urine and feces.  The visual picture brought home the reality of life with Obstetric fistulas.


Take a look at my HOW To Contribute page and see how you can me help them.


Watch the Movie...

A Walk to Beautiful (watch instantly on netflix with this link or the link below on youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w-fOmovijc&ob=av1e