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Fund Raising for Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Last Thursday morning Covenant Christian School was filled with the delightful smell of bacon and eggs cooking on the barbeque. Mr. Smithies and the Student Council sold bacon and egg rolls and hash browns to the high school students. The money that was raised is being sent to a Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia to support the hospital and a family from a local Sydney church who run the midwifery college there.


In Ethiopia, alone, there are an estimated 100,000 women suffering with untreated fistula, and another 9,000 women who develop fistula each year. Due to poor health standards many girls who give birth develop a fistula which can lead to permanent damage of her internal organs. The hospital is able to treat women with this ailment, their cure rate is over 90%.

For more information http://www.fistulafoundation.org/index.html
Thank you to everyone who supported the this cause. Get ready for more BBQ breakfasts!

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