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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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WELCOME TO TERREWODE

Dedicated to Eliminating Obstetric Fistula

The Association for Rehabilitation and Re-orientation of Women for Development (TERREWODE) is a National Non-Government Organization. The entity has existed for about 20 years, championing the campaign for promotion, protection and provision of obstetric fistula services within the context of Sexual, Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR); including maternal and safe motherhood services and empowerment of vulnerable women and girls.

A nurse serves a a recovering survivor at TWCH. The specialised fistula hospital renders holistic fistula care.

Terrewode has employed Obstetric Fistula (OF) as a catalyst to address obstacles that continue to keep Uganda’s national maternal and neonatal motilities and morbidities high.

WHERE WE WORK

TERREWODE is headquartered in Soroti City, Teso Sub-region of Eastern Uganda which is also the location for Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital (TWCH), 6.5kms along Soroti-Lira Highway in Awasi Village, Arapai Sub County. We have since expanded our programing activities to parts of Central, Western, Eastern and Northern regions. We welcome women and girls seeking for OF care from beyond our national frontiers, within East Africa.

HOW WE WORK

We mobilise rural women and girls into groups, empower them with relevant skills and knowledge and we facilitate them to engage their local leaders bothe technocrats and policy leaders to improve maternal and child health, SRHR by employing OF as a wedge to accelerate efforts and action on the issue. We innovate, act, and seek partnerships purposely to grow our ideas, also by building capacity of various stakeholders in communities on OF and its linkages to maternal and child health, SRHS, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) working with women and girls at the grassroots levels and secondly by working with grass root or community stakeholders.

our mission

To contribute to the elimination of fistula, improvement in sexual reproductive health and rights, maternal and child health of women and girls through supporting healthcare systems transformation, provision of treatment, women and girls empowerment, enhancement of community capacity and support systems, as well as research, awareness and advocacy.

our vision

‘An end to maternal and new-born mortality and morbidity in Uganda.’

OUR APPROACH

Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital (TWCH) is a specialized obstetric fistula hospital located at TERREWODE headquarters; about 6.5km along Soroti-Lira highway in Awasi village, Arapai sub county, Soroti district.