6,000+
16
1 in 4
26%
WHY THIS MATTERS
There is a dire need for better maternal healthcare in Uganda.
Public health facilities in Uganda are chronically underfunded, plagued by a lack of infrastructure, equipment, essential drugs, and basic supplies.
Severe staff shortages are common, made worse by a widespread lack of adequate training and low levels of competence in critical emergency obstetric skills.
Women often cannot access life-saving C-sections. When they can, poorly performed surgeries can lead to fistula. Or death.
FROM TREATMENT TO PREVENTION
It’s time to build on that progress.
1,800+ women and girls have received comprehensive, holistic treatment and rehabilitation for fistula and other childbirth injuries since Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital first opened in Soroti in 2019.
It’s time to take a transformational step toward ending fistula by addressing the chronic absence of accessible, high quality maternity services in Eastern Uganda.
Help us start building Terrewode Maternity
Your gift will help us reach our $4.2 million capital campaign goal to build Terrewode Maternity — a world-class addition to Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital. We’re getting close to raising the funds needed to break ground and begin construction. The sooner we start building, the sooner women in East Uganda will start receiving high-quality reproductive and maternity care, before, during, and after childbirth. Terrewode Maternity will serve as a model that other health facilities can replicate. This is how we will end fistula for good, across Africa and anywhere women still live with this devastating yet preventable childbirth injury.
ENDING FISTULA AT ITS SOURCE
Prevention is the key to
ending fistula.
Our partners at Build Health International, global experts in maternal and child health facility design, and the Ugandan firm Creation Architects are helping us turn our vision for Terrewode Maternity into reality.
A MODEL FOR SAFER MATERNITY CARE
Terrewode Maternity will save lives.
and PREVENT fistula from happening by providing:
Skilled midwives and obstetricians who can identify risks early and ensure women receive timely, appropriate care before complications lead to fistula or other preventable injuries.
Training and mentorship for frontline health workers at partner facilities to improve the quality of maternity care across the region, especially safe cesarean sections.
A specialized unit for high-risk pregnancies and babies born prematurely, and the region’s first fully functional neonatal intensive care unit.
A model Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) unit. KMC is a low-cost, highly effective method for caring for preterm and low-birthweight babies—yet rarely practiced in Uganda today.
Private labor and delivery suites, where each woman can remain in one safe, supportive space throughout her birthing journey.
Screenings to detect risks for obstructed labor sooner so that women receive the right care before complications cause preventable injuries or become life- threatening.
