Surgical Success Stories - #217-221

Endile Shafa is 45 years old and has suffered from prolapse for four years. She lives with her husband and her five children. She has been pregnant eight times. They work as farmers both growing crops and taking care of livestock. Dr. Nate is making sure that she takes some time off as she heals.

Bizunesh Arigado has delivered eight children and six are still living. She has suffered from prolapse for two years and is very happy not to have this problem anymore!

Mazagabe is married and has been pregnant ten times. She has delivered eight children and six of them are living. Thank you for the difference you have made by sponsoring her surgery!

Askale has suffered from prolapse for three years. She has delivered nine children, six of which are still living. She is now free of prolapse.

Askale Tamalo has suffered from prolapse for six years. She is married but not living with her husband. She has been pregnant eight times and five of them are living. Thank you for making such a difference in her life.

Surgical Success Stories - #211-216

Mulunesh has delivered eight children; six are alive. She is married and has had severe prolapse for over two years. She is very grateful not to have this problem now thanks to you!

Workinesh is married and has delivered four children but only one of them are living at this time. She has had prolapse for eight years and is also very grateful not to have this condition any more.

Malime is married and has been pregnant 11 times. She delivered 10 children of whom eight are living. She has suffered from prolapse for eight years and has now had a successful surgery!

Meskale is 55 year old, widowed, and lives with two of her grandchildren. She has two living children and three that have passed away. She has had prolapse for three years and now she no longer has any prolapse concerns.

Turungay is only 35 years old. She’s had prolapse for four years after giving birth to her last child. She had five children but only two are living and she lives with them as well as her husband who is a farmer.  She was so happy to have her prolapse taken care of by your kind generosity.

Belame is 50 years of age., widowed and lives with one of her five children.  She had one child who passed away.  She’s had prolapse for four years and now she is freed from that problem.

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!