Surgical Success Stories - #207-210

Maselech is married and has four children. She has had prolapse for one year and has now undergone surgery.

Tegesech is 30 years old, married and has a six-month-old baby who is with her in the hospital. She has four living children and has suffered from prolapse for six to seven years. 

Addis has delivered six children and five are living. She has quite the sense of humour as you can tell by her picture. She has suffered from prolapse for three years and is married. 

Malena is married and has been pregnant seven times but only four of her children are living. She has had prolapse for one year and thanks to your generosity, she is now prolapse free!

Surgical Success Stories - #201-206

Bizunesh underwent surgery for 3rd degree prolapse. She is married, was pregnant eight times and six of her children are living. She had suffered from prolapse for one year. 

Ribican is 35 years old and has two children. She is married and lives with her husband and her children. She has suffered from prolapse for two years and has now had a successful surgery!

Amarech is 30 years old. She is married and had six children, four of whom are still alive. She had prolapse for eight years and after failing some conservative measures with a pessary and she was able to have surgery to finally permanently help her.

Furume is 35 and has had prolapse for 20 years, ever since the birth of her first of six children. Five are still alive and she was able to have successful surgery that will permanently address her issues. It’s hard to imagine that she has suffered from this for 20 years. We are so glad that she no longer needs to suffer.

Dalite Dana is 40 years old and has four living children after giving birth to six. She’s had prolapse for a long eight years. She is now free of her prolapse and recovering well. And she gave Dr. Mark a big thumbs up before surgery!

Woyize is only 35 but had a very severe prolapse for 3 years and is the mother of five children. Although her prolapse was very severe, Dr. Mark an Dr. Nate were able to successfully help her.

Surgical Success Story - Celebrating #200! ❤️

This beautiful lady is the 200th Ethiopian woman that we have been able to sponsor to receive a prolapse uterus correction surgery. Yeah!

Ayinate is 50 years old and lives with her husband and her seven children. Her husband is a farmer but he has been sick and she and the children have been running the farm.  She has had prolapse for three years and she is now free of her prolapse.  She’ll be taking it easy for six weeks as she recovers and will let her children attend to her as well as the farm.

Surgical Success Stories - #195, #196 & #197

This is Tame and she is a 45-year-old widow. She had nine children but sadly only three are still alive.  She’s had prolapse for the past 3 years and was so grateful to have her  surgery performed.

Aynasem is 35 years old. Her prolapse was very severe and she had suffered from it for three years.  She has had five children and four of them are still alive and live with her and her husband.  Her surgery went very well!

This is Baraze and she is 60.  She has had eight children and four of them are still alive. She lives with her husband and has been struggling with her prolapse for three years.  She, as well as all of these sweet ladies, are so grateful to have had surgery and for your kind generosity.

Surgical Success Stories - #193 & #194

Gelanesh has suffered from third degree prolapse for three years and was very anxious and very grateful to have her surgery. She is married with six children. Thank you for helping this beautiful lady!

Zenebech is a forty-year-old mom who lives with her husband and several of her children. She has had eight but only five are still living. She has had prolapse for a little over a year and now that issue has been repaired by Dr. Mark and Dr. Nate at Soddo Christian Hospital.

Surgical Success Stories - #189 to #192

This is Galtore.  She is probably around 70 and had five children but only one has survived. She’s still married but, like a lot of women, her husband has another wife and does not live with her. She does see him once a week or so for coffee. She’s had prolapse for “at least 7 years” (Dr. Nate guesses that it’s been more than 10). She is still very spunky and brings a smile to everyone’s face that she talks to. She was so happy to have her surgery performed!

Aberash is 45 and was blessed with six children, all of whom are still alive. She’s actually still breastfeeding her youngest and lives with her husband and children. She’s had prolapse for about one year but it quickly became very severe. She is so grateful to be celebrating Ethiopian Christmas next week free of prolapse.

This is Hana and she is 50 years old. She had seven children and six are still alive. She lives in the Gadalla area with her husband and has had prolapse for 1 year. Thank you to our donors for helping her!

This is Zenbech who is 60 and had seven children, all of whom are alive. She lives with her husband as well as some of her children. She’s had prolapse for over a year and was so pleased to have surgery.

Surgical Success Stories - #185 to #188

This is Balushe, a 57-year-old widow who is a mother of four. She has noticed her prolapse for one year and she was so happy to receive help from MWAHFE.

This is Bugalech who think that she is 80 years old! She has had prolapse for three years. She has five children and LOTS of grandchildren!  She was healthy enough to have surgery and is so grateful.  

A note from Dr. Nate: “Bugalech was SO appreciative for her surgery!  After I would finish seeing her on rounds she would grab my hand and just start kissing it, showing her gratitude for what was done for her.  I tried to explain that this was not just me, but a team of people as well as a good God who had stepped out to help this sweet lady.  So thank you everyone!”

Latome is 50 years old. She has had seven children but only three survived. She has suffered from her prolapse for six years and was so pleased to be able to be helped through your kind generosity. 

This is Marta Dache, a 36-year-old who has had prolapse for one year.  She delivered seven children and five are still alive.  She lives with her husband who is a farmer who grows corn and wheat. She was so pleased to be helped today and is grateful for everyone’s kindness and generosity.

Surgical Success Stories - #183 & #184

This is Nehina. She is around 49 and she has suffered from her prolapse for seven years. She had nine children but only two are still alive. She is widowed. She was so grateful to have her surgery.

This is Abebech. She is around 50 and has had her prolapse for 10 years. She is also widowed and has two living children after giving birth to three children. She is so happy to have her problem addressed. Thank you to all of our donors! 

Surgical Success Stories - #180, #181, #182

Martane Narebo is a 52-year-old widow who has delivered nine children, seven of them are still living. She has had prolapse for four year and has now received her life-changing surgery because of your generosity.

Ayetech Chemo is a 50-year-old mom who has delivered nine children, five of whom are still alive. She has had prolapse for three years and was very excited to have her surgery sponsored by MWAHFE.

This is Belaynesh Worku, a 52-year-old widow and mother of eight. She has suffered from prolapse for seven years and is now has a new lease on life! Thank you!

Surgical Success Story - #179

Please meet Asegedech Awoke who has suffered from prolapse for three years. She is married and has delivered seven children. Thank you to all of our donors who made her surgery possible!