Welcome to the Healing Hands of Joy website.  Healing Hands of Joy is a nonprofit corporation that has as its vision to help empower women who have suffered from childbirth injuries including obstetric fistula, who have become ostracized, unproductive members of their communities with little hope for the future, reintegrate into their communities and to train these women to bring basic maternal health care services to their villages.  We invite you to keep visiting our site as we improve and add features to the site and to track the progress of our project.

Obstetric Fistula is a double sorrow. A woman loses her baby in long, painful, obstructed labor and then wakes up to the horror of incontinence. A woman with obstetric fistula is often abandoned by her husband, ostracized by her family and village and left to live the rest of her life alone and ashamed. Fortunately there is a cure and many women in Ethiopia are treated at a Hamlin Fistula Hospital. But after living years in this condition and being married at an early age, women recovered from fistula have few options for their future. Healing Hands of Joy brings hope, happiness and a second chance to these women. 

Healing Hands of Joy
3101 N Hampton Drive
#1517
Alexandria, VA 22302