Bamiyan Panorama

Bamiyan Panorama

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

A Walk to Beautiful - about Fistulas


Many young girls around the world don't quite get enough food to eat.  They also work very hard doing chores.  This causes their bodies to be smaller because they have lacked the nutrition needed to grow normally.  On top of that, they are married young - before their bodies have fully 'become adult'.  While giving birth, the baby causes damage and sometimes dies because the mother's bone structure is too small to give birth properly.  Sometimes the mother dies as well.  The damage caused (fistula) can only be fixed by surgery, and without surgery the woman is incontinent and ostracized.  This happens all over the world.





http://www.walktobeautiful.com/

http://www.fistulafoundation.org/index.html

http://www.fistulafoundation.org/wherewehelp/afghanistan/

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