About Healing Hands of Joy

Our mission is to establish safe motherhood support networks around the Healing Hands of Joy Center and with the goal of eradicating fistula and assisting those...

VISION

To empower women who have suffered from childbirth injuries by training these women to bring basic maternal health services to their villages and providing...

HISTORY

Healing Hands of Joy is a community based, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization committed to improving the lives of women who have suffered from obstetric fistula and preventing more women from developing fistula. The organization’s...

OUR BOARD

Our board has a passion and a determination to make a difference in the lives of women who suffer from obstetric fistula. Find out more about them and why our organization is in such good hands.

OUR FOUNDER

Through her travels to Ethiopia working on the Emmy Award winning documentary A Walk to Beautiful, a film following the lives of five Ethiopian women who have suffered from obstetric fistula, Allison Shigo witnessed firsthand the need for...

OUR STAFF

Healing Hands of Joy hired former Health Officer, Atsede Taddele to serve as Project Director and run the Healing Hands of Joy Center in Mekelle. Atsede helped create the Safe Motherhood Ambassador training curriculum...

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