Sue Hope spoke to the Club members about the Foundation’s work in Sierra Leone, Kenya and Malawi to bring comfort, relief and support to women disabled through childbirth. Sue explained the dramatic consequences that affect one woman every three seconds; an appalling figure highlighting the ignorance and neglect shown towards the sufferers.

The Foundation set up in 2008 by Ann Gloag seeks to expand the early work with the help of Rotary and the United nations. Although the Foundation gives medical support to the sufferers, it has provided a means of reintegration into society for the shunned sufferers.

Just as important is the work to bring about prevention through natural care and family planning. So the Foundation has supported the training of over five hundred specialist doctors and nurses. In Kenya the Foundation supports and funds existing work, while direct intervention is needed in the other countries.

Further work includes out-patient clinics which have supported over twenty thousand children to date. Secondly, the work has been shown to be supported greatly by the further provision of literary and nursery classes which give the Foundation more meaning to the holistic approach it has sponsored.

Club Members were very encouraged by the further knowledge that every penny raised is directed towards the sufferers and very moved by a direct insight into the hidden plight of so many women. Sue Hope was thanked by her host for the evening, Colin Moreland, for her time, patience and expertise in explaining the detailed work of the Foundation.