Bringing Back Dignity: The Story of Yeserash Simeneh

This is the second of three videos that tell the stories of Tihun, Yeserash, and Abebu -- three young women from Ethiopia who have survived obstetric fistula. The women and their family members give insight into the difficulties of life with fistula, the joys of being repaired, and the lessons learned from their experiences. These videos are excerpts from the film "Bringing Back Dignity," produced under the ACQUIRE project funded by USAID.

Yeserash and her father, Simeneh, express the hardships of obstetric fistula as well as the lessons learned from their experience. Simeneh's father regrets marrying off his daughter at the young age of 12 or 13 and vows that he will not do the same with his other daughters. He wishes other people would learn from his "painful mistake", urging them not to arrange early marriages and to allow their daughters to consent to marriage. Yeserash is now fully recovered and has since had a health baby boy.

The other two videos are also available on YouTube:

The Story of Tihun Ingedaw:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemcEYwJ26Y

The Story of Abebu Dego:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9APa2ZnLi4

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The ACQUIRE Project (Access, Quality, and Use in Reproductive Health) advanced and supported the availability, quality, and use of facility-based reproductive health and family planning services at every level of the health care system, and strengthened links between facilities and communities. EngenderHealth was the managing partner. For more information about EngenderHealth, please visit http://www.engenderhealth.org/.

Further work on obstetric fistula is being done by the Fistula Care Project, also funded by USAID and managed by EngenderHealth. Fistula Care works to address the enormous backlog of women awaiting life-altering fistula repair, ensuring that they receive timely and quality care from trained providers. At the same time, the project works to remove barriers to emergency obstetric care that lead to fistula in the first place. For more information, please visit http://www.fistulacare.org/.
Copyright 2008 EngenderHealth/IntraHealth/The ACQUIRE Project

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• familyplanning
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[gibredingl]

Hi my name is Gibredingl and I come from Ethiopia, and I am doing a project about the different between underage married Ethiopia and UK. so i would be happy if you ppl give me some infromation about the UK underage married because I have a lot of information about Ethiopia but i dont have enough information about the UK, so if you guys give some information it thanks.