Hellen is a 20 year old lady from Narok that we met during the Kenyatta VVF camp. She is single and has no children. Hellen got both VVF and RVF in 2007 when she was delivering her first child. She was 17 years then. After 3 days of labor, she had a still born. She ...Read More Read More »

Abigael Kanini from Kaskeu village is only 18 years of age. She got fistula 3 months ago during delivery and lost her baby boy of 3.8 kgs, she labored alone for a long time before telling someone and later went to hospital where she delivered through a caesarian section. It’s immediately after delivery that I ...Read More Read More »

33 year old Mumbua Katisya comes from Kangundo district Eastern Part of Kenya. She got fistula while delivering her first child and lost the baby in the process, she labored for more than 12 hours at home before getting mean of transport to the nearby hospital. In terms of seeking medical treatment  Mumbua had come ...Read More Read More »

Mary Atieno 48 years old comes from a small village in Homa bay district. In regards to marital status Mary was in a polygamous marriage but separated with the husband soon after getting fistula. She got fistula when delivering her first child and has only 2 children and 6 still births and had lived with ...Read More Read More »

Cecilia Nyambura, 55years from Nyahururu district is a farmer by occupation. She got VVF in 1997 during the El Niño rains, she recalls that period because its then that she went into labour and on arrival at hospital there were no doctors, she labored for more than 12 hours alone before a doctor came and ...Read More Read More »

Maria Mugire  27 years old hails from Ruiru town  just a couple  of miles from Nairobi town , she got married at the age of 20 years and wasn’t able to complete her primary education due to RVF which she got at a tender age of 7 Years after rape. She has lived with that ...Read More Read More »

She has both VVF and RVF which she developed five years ago in yet another case of delayed and eventually skilled assisted birth. My two children are dead and they would have been five and three years old by now. I am divorcee of 5 years; my husband left me when I got this problem. ...Read More Read More »

Another refugee from Ifo camp in Daadab, she is been in the country for only 15 days. Her physique is typical of OF patients as she is small bodied/stunted.  She is one of whose OF stemmed from harmful traditional practices. At seventeen years, she delivered her first child albeit prolonged labour in the traditional manyattas. ...Read More Read More »

She came to Dadaad three months ago, and like many of the Somalia origin in the camp she came with both RVF/VVF that she had lived with for one year. She has no known relatives in Somalia and the camp and was destitute with nowhere to sleep when the rains fell this month. That is ...Read More Read More »

Hails from Dadaab as well. At 38 years old, she counts herself lucky to have found AMREF after living with OF for ten years and four years of trying to get access to the ‘Flying Doctors’. ‘I came from Somalia ten years ago and I am married (at 17 years)’. Mulki was lucky to have ...Read More Read More »