Tuesday 4 November 2014

Photos- Stephanie Okereke At The Extended Hands Foundation Pool Ibadan


According to her, For many years, I have been passionate about helping women who sadly have a condition called Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF).
This passion led me to form the Extended Hands Foundation, a charity organisation which has been dedicated to raising awareness about this condition and helping women already affected.
In an effort to spread the word on the dangers of Vesico Vaginal Fistula and to repair as many women as possible who have the condition.
The pool effort was done to bring hope and restoration to the women who had been living with this condition for varying period of time. The women had the repair surgeries done at no cost to them and their families.
Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) is a serious disability that can be experienced by women after childbirth. They are holes resulting from the breakdown in the tissue between the vaginal wall and the bladder or rectum caused by unrelieved obstructed labour. The consequence of such damage is a woman’s inability to control the flow of urine or faeces. It occurs more often in young women during childbirth, as their bodies are not yet mature for the process.
The exercise which kicked off in June was a very successful one. The team of doctors carried out repair surgeries on 20 women whose lives had been adversely affected by this condition and it was so heart warming to restore hope and a chance at living normal lives to these women.See More Photo After The Cuts.......
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Me and my wonderful Extended Hands Crew.
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The equipment we donated to the hospital
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1 comment:

beauty said...

that is my vision one day