TERREWODE

Dedicated to Eliminating Obstetric Fistula

The Association for Rehabilitation and Reorientation of Women for Development (TERREWODE) is a not-for-profit Ugandan organization with an overall goal of achieving better health outcomes for women and girls during and after childbirth. We do this by providing services and transforming the conventional healthcare system focusing on Obstetric Fistula, maternal and child health and their interconnectivity to gender inequality, poor governance, social injustice and poverty. TERREWODE was founded in 1999 and has since then improved countless lives through their interventions.

Further Details

Terrewode Women's Community Hospital

Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital (TWCH) is the first and only specialized health facility dedicated to the medical needs of women and girls suffering from obstetric fistula in Uganda.
Commissioned in 2019, TWCH provides routine (open 24/7) holistic and patient-centered care including individualized counselling, health education, medical screenings and physiotherapy.

Collaboration Meeting with Fistula Foundation (FF) Partners. TERREWODE Executive Director during a meeting with Fistula Foundation (FF) partnership teams at their offices in San Jose, USA on 26th March 2024
TERREWODE facilitates Transformative GBV Training. TERREWODE recently facilitated a transformative training session on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention and response with focus on development of strategies to safeguard children’s rights and wellbeing
Museveni at TERREWODE women's day
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Always proud to be part of the progress

OUR APPROACH

We mobilise rural women and girls into groups, empower them with relevant skills and knowledge, and facilitate them to engage their local leaders-- both technocrats and policy makers-- to improve maternal and child sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), by employing obstetric fistula (OF) as a wedge to accelerate efforts and action on the issue. We innovate, act, and seek partnerships purposely to grow our ideas. We also build capacity among various stakeholders in communities on OF and its linkages to maternal and child health, SRHR, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), first by working with women and girls at the grassroots level and secondly by working with community stakeholders.