Why Do We Work in Angola?

Angola was devastated by a 27 year civil war that ended in 2002. The country's peace contributed to its own "baby boom." Angola has one of the highest fertility rates in the world. Obstetric fistula (the most devastating and serious of all childbirth injuries) is prevalent here because so many women deliver their babies without medical help and the country lacks adequate maternal health services and particularly emergency obstetric care for its population.

What You Help Us Do In Angola

We're helping fund:

• Fistula surgery treatment

Where:
Evangelical Medical Center located in Lubango, the capital city for the country's southwest region (also known as the Centro Evangelico De Medicina de Lubango, or CEML for short)

How much funding have we granted?
$131,704 in FY2011
$100,000 in FY2010
$50,000 in FY2009

Who's our partner?
We provide grant support directly to this hospital.

How will this help women in Angola?
To address the critical need for improved maternal health services, Dr. Stephen Foster opened the CEML in 2006 to offer the local population a stable centrally-located hospital with outlying regional clinics, providing the local patients in need of treatment transportation, surgery, housing and nutritional assistance. Like his father before him, Dr. Foster has served as a lifelong missionary surgeon in Africa. We are proud to support Dr. Foster and his dedicated hospital team, for they have treated hundreds of women suffering from fistula since their first year of grant funding in 2009. We're honored to be helping significantly more women in Angola receive high-quality fistula care.