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Dr Catherine Hamlin meets Queen Elizabeth
II. On her recent visit to Australia, Dr Hamlin was
invited to meet with the Queen. Also present is the High
Commissioner and The Duke of Edinburgh. Dr Hamlin was very
flattered and uplifted by this invitation.
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Amazon, eBay, John Lewis, Next and many more? Register at
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ and then put it in your
Favorites (Bookmark). Instead of going directly to Amazon,
etc, find the retailer through Easyfundraising.org.uk, click on it
and go shop. Every purchase makes a contribution to Hamlin
Fistula UK.
Go to "More
Information" to see colourful photos of blankets knitted for the
patients.
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This is a site dedicated to hope and rebirth, made
possible by the generosity of our donors. The task is enormous and
we hope you will see in the photos on these pages how much you have done
for these unfortunate women and how your kindness continues to reach out
and help them where no other help is available. The hallmark of
the hospital is love and compassion. Walking into the drive
pictured below from the noisy and dirty city, the atmosphere immediately
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The Hospital Entrance at the Fistula Hospital in Addis
Ababa
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Dr Catherine Hamlin
Winner of The Right Livelihood Award 2009.
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Ways to Support Us |
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Background -
Work amongst poor women with childbirth injuries
In 1959,
Dr Reg and Catherine Hamlin, Gynaecologists and Obstetricians from New Zealand
and Australia went to Ethiopia to work in the Princess Tsehai Hospital in Addis
Ababa. They soon found the distressing state of many women who had complications
in childbirth and who were not welcomed in the local hospitals because of the
offensive nature of their injuries - the smell!
By 1975,
the Hamlins had raised sufficient funds world-wide to build their own dedicated
Hospital for these patients. A new 50 bed
hospital was opened then and aproximately 25 women a week are treated for
vaginal fistulas. Great distances are travelled by patients, even from
Kenya, Sudan and Somalia and often on foot.
Their
efforts have been assisted by this
charity, which was formed in 1968, following a fund-raising tour by the Hamlins to the Birmingham Medical School in England.
Dr Reg Hamlin died in 1993. He is buried in
the British War Graves Cemetery in Addis Ababa and the epitaph on his
tombstone fittingly reads, "A man of vision and compassion". |
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The hospital in Addis Ababa as portrayed by Google Earth.
The Hospital by the River! |
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President - Clive Hewitt FCA;
UK Trustees - John Kelly OBE FRCS FRCOG (Chairman), Brian Hancock
MD FRCS, Betty Rose (Hon Sec), Kalantha Brewis, MA (Cantab), Jean Hadley,
Phillipa Parkes BSc FCA, Malcolm Hewitt OBE MA(Oxon), Ginny Randle BA, Beverley
Stewart BSc and Rev Brian Taylor. CEO - Laurence Parkes FCA |
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