Congratulations to Healing Hands of Joy @HHOJ for the #FutureUnited Africa Award at Africa-Uk Health Summit. Thank you for the great service fighting fistula through preventing, treating, rehabilitating & reintegrating fistula patients & making them #SafeMotherhood Ambassadors.
@lia_tadesse@HHOJ Thank you Dr. Lia ! We’re grateful for the opportunity to transform women’s lives and work to eliminate fistula in Ethiopia. Thank you for your partnership w HHoJ!
🎉🎂Happy Birthday to the Healing Hands of Joy center in Bahir Dar!
In spring 2015, we opened the doors of our second training and rehabilitation center in Ethiopia, and on June 7th we celebrated the graduation of our very first round of SMAs from the Amhara region.
"Mothers are the pillars of families and the country. Improving mothers' health is saving the nation." -That's this year's theme for Safe Motherhood Month in Ethiopia. HHOJ participated in the kickoff conference this weekend, and we're honored to be part of that initiative!
While Co-producing A Walk to Beautiful, Allison Shigo realized that women who suffered from obstetric fistula need rehabilitation and she founded Healing Hands of Joy in 2010. More than 1700 fistula survivors have been trained to become Safe Motherhood Ambassadors.