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Mary Chimbili
Jan 42 min read
Happy New Year from Our Family to Yours
Votoka has ended 2024 on a high, filled with love and hope for the future, and a renewed dedication to the prevention of obstetric...
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Mary Chimbili
Oct 8, 20242 min read
"Look at Me!"
Meet Segunda Sezar. She was part of the September campaign in Bie. Once she knew she was cured, her joy was inescapable! On the day she...
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Mary Chimbili
Sep 15, 20242 min read
Another campaign, another hundred stories...
We are currently caring for 78 women who had fistula repair operations at Strangway Hospital in Bie between August 30 and September 5....
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Mary Chimbili
Sep 9, 20242 min read
Nurse Prevention and Awareness Training in Benguela Province
During July and August this year our Obstetric Fistula Program, led by Petra Jobse, conducted Prevention and Awareness Training about...
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Mary Chimbili
Aug 6, 20242 min read
We may have been quiet, but we haven't been still!
Over the last month the Votoka team has been busy visiting patients in their homes, conducting mobilisation and awareness events,...
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Mary Chimbili
Jul 10, 20242 min read
This Campaign is Over - Our Work Continues.
The May operations campaign has ended with our last patients leaving on July the 1st to return to their homes. We started with 213 women...
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Mary Chimbili
Jun 25, 20242 min read
We are still here. From 213 to 4!
The Votoka team continues to provide quality nursing after-care, trauma counselling and reintegration training to the 4 remaining...
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Mary Chimbili
Jun 10, 20242 min read
What does hope look like?
Hope. It seems like such a simple word. Look at Fernanda* (name changed for privacy). Her joy. Her energy. The life in her eyes. Since...
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Mary Chimbili
Jun 1, 20242 min read
Operations have finished - but our work carries on…!
The long hard road of post-operative care, trauma counselling and reintegration continues after operations officially ended on the...
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Mary Chimbili
May 23, 20241 min read
Operations are well underway!
Votoka has registered more than 220 women for the May operations campaign. So far 57 of these women received life-changing fistula repair...
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Mary Chimbili
May 17, 20241 min read
Registration Begins!
Registration for the May 2024 Fistula Repair Operations Campaign in Cuito, Bie have begun. Patients from far and wide have begun to...
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Mary Chimbili
Apr 15, 20242 min read
Empowering Women Through Obstetric Fistula Treatment
Empowering Women Through Obstetric Fistula Treatment Our organization is dedicated to providing holistic treatment and support to women...
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