Fistula Foundation

This week's featured charity is the Fistula Foundation!

The Fistula Foundation works to raise awareness and funding for fistula.

For those of you who didn't know, a fistula is a hole in a woman's reproductive system, caused by receiving inadequate blood flow after going into obstructed labor.

When it was originally founded in 2000, it was made up entirely of volunteers, supporting a hospital in Ethiopia. Now, however, they've expanded the scope of their mission, supporting "fistula treatment in 32 countries at sites on two continents, Africa and Asia" (1).

Weekly Charity is not officially working with the Fistula Foundation, but does encourage helping them out.

Now for some stats:

Charity Navigator gives Fistula Foundation: 4 out of 4 stars
Charity Watch gives Fistula Foundation: An "A" rating
Fistula Foundation meets the BBB Wise Giving Alliance's 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Here's the Fistula Foundation's website:
https://www.fistulafoundation.org

Thank you for reading about the Fistula Foundation!

SOURCES

(1) The website, www.fistulafoundation.org, on the page, "About Us", retrieved from the url, "https://www.fistulafoundation.org/about-us/", on Thursday, August 4, 2016.