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Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Hidden Truth

As westerners we are oblivious to a lot of the traumatic events and situations that happen throughout the world, especially thrid world countries. We are aware of the poverty in some places and we help when there is a disaster, but when have we actually paid attention when something didn't end up on the news?!

There has always been something that has always been close to my heart and saddens me quite a bit. I was introduced to the devastation of obstetric fistula at the age of 12. My mother had joined this organization that raised awareness and helped victims of obstetric fistula. For those who may not know what obstetric fistula is, "A fistula is simply a hole between an internal organ and the outside world that should not exist. There are two primary causes of fistula in women in developing countries: childbirth, causing obstetric fistula and sexual violence, causing traumatic fistula
Obstetric fistula the most devastating of all childbirth injuries
An obstetric fistula develops when blood supply to the tissues of the vagina and the bladder (and/or rectum) is cut off during prolonged obstructed labor. The tissues die and a hole forms through which urine and/or feces pass uncontrollably. Women who develop fistulas are often abandoned by their husbands, rejected by their communities, and forced to live an isolated existence."

I will never forget the strory I heard at my first meeting with The Fistula Foundation :Tesfa Ineste. An eight year old girl, who lived in the rural areas of Ethiopia, was sold intto marriage. She had been raped by her "husband" and got pregnant, but because her body was not developed enough to give birth to a child, she gvae birth to a dead baby. As traumatc as that already was for her, she then had to endure more hardships. Because of the birth her internal reprductive organs had become severly damaged. She began to leak urine and feces uncontrollably. Because of this she began to smell, her husband tried to give her back to her family and they would not accept her. So he built a hut for her on the outskirts of the village, a hut that had no door. She was to stay there night and day and never show her face in the village because she was an embarassment. Purposely her husband made the hut without a door, he wanted the wildlife in the region to kill her.

And that is exactly what had almost happened. Fortunately the young girl had heard about clinics for women in a village about 40 miles from hers where they helped women who went through the same condition she was going through. The night before she had planned to go to the clinic, she was attacked by hyenas. Because of her will to survive, the girl fought off the hyenas with a large stick. She did have severe bites and she could not walk, but still she managed to CRAWL te 40 miles to the clinic. Once she reached it she was treated and healed of the condition.

Now she is a nurse at the same hospital, she cannot have children, but she is grateful for the chance to live and live like a woman.

The sad part about this is, it's not something that is known, but it is happening to young girls all over Africa and noone knows about it. It something that needs to be known, girls being sold into marriage at young ages, ages where they are supposed to be in school and acting like children. We don't realize as children that there are others our age that don't have what we have, but go through the worst of the worst. Now it is up to us to shine a light on this situation. Everyone can help, by donating and educating yourselves about it. Visit http://www.thefistulafoundation.org to learn more and find out how you can help.

These girls need our help and we owe it to them, to help them lead a fraction of the life we had as young girls. We need to keep ourselves educated about things that our happening around the world, and not just when there is one disaster on the news but every day. Because these disaster happen everyday!

xoxo,
Dey

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