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USAID Gives Fistula Victims a Chance to Rebuild their Lives
Women participate in a fistula post-recovery arts and crafts workshop. At mercy ship center in Freetown a women recovers from fistula surgery. Laboratories at the mercy ship center are clean and well-equipped.
Women participate in a fistula post-recovery arts and crafts workshop. At mercy ship center in Freetown a women recovers from fistula surgery.

Laboratories at the mercy ship center are clean and well-equipped.
A mother waits for surgery. A girl who had been abandoned by her family now learns embroidery at the center. Fully-equipped operating rooms at the mercy ship center average four fistula surgeries a day.

A mother waits for surgery.

The center welcomes women who are waiting to have a surgery as well as their babies.

 A girl who had been abandoned by her family now learns embroidery at the center.

Fully-equipped operating rooms at the mercy ship center average four fistula surgeries a day.
Last updated June, 2009.
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