She had no formal degree. But she trained some of Ethiopia's finest. 🩺Mamitu Gashe, fistula surgeon at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia — counts former Minister of Health Dr. Amir and current Minister of H..
UNFPA Ethiopia, together with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation AECID and the Afar Regional Health Bureau, launched a new project at Berhale Primary Hospital, in Afar reg...
The wait is over. The full interview is here. 🎙️💙
In the debut episode of Kibir Podcast by UNFPA Ethiopia, host Haregwein Assefa sits down with Mamitu Gashe, a fistula survivor who went on to becom.
A place to rest. A place to change. A place that says, you belong here.
UNFPA Ethiopia Youth Champion and Miss World Africa 2025, Hasset Dereje, visited a gender club at Kaliti Secondary School in ...
Every girl knows that moment.
Your period comes suddenly in the middle of class. You ask your friend, she doesn't have one either. You leave quietly, worried and distracted.
It shouldn't be that wa...
What's inside a $15 Dignity Kit, and why does it matter?
UNFPA Ethiopia Youth Champion and Miss World Africa 2025, Hasset Dereje, sits down with students who are seeing some of these items for the ...
What happens when something goes terribly wrong after childbirth — but no one around you has the words to describe it?
For Mamite Gashe, that reality was a bed with a hole cut into the middle, plac...
This is just a glimpse. The full story is coming soon. 👀
Meet Mamitu - a fistula survivor turned world-renowned surgeon at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. In our upcoming episode of Kibir Podcast by UNFPA..
This is just a glimpse. The full story is coming soon. 👀
Meet Mamitu, a fistula survivor turned world-renowned surgeon at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. In our upcoming episode of Kibir Podcast by UNFPA ..
Humanitarian crises disproportionately impact women and girls, cutting off access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health services. In some of the most remote and underserved communities, wom...
What do Mother's Day and International Midwives Day have in common? Everything.
Zeweditu is a mother of four from Assosa, Ethiopia, expecting her fifth child. Because she lives far from the nearest...
As a little girl, Nigatwa told everyone she would be a doctor.
Growing up in the Hammer community in South Ethiopia, she saw what it meant when skilled health workers were present, and what it cost...
For Samia, the answer is personal. Growing up in the Afar region of Ethiopia, she witnessed women she loved suffer needlessly during childbirth. She knew it didn't have to be this way, and she deci...
When Woubit was a little girl, her mother went into labour carrying twins. Nobody knew until it was time to deliver. It was a breech. The nurse present could only save one.
The second baby did not...
Why do midwives choose this path?
For Samia, the answer is personal. Growing up in the Afar region of Ethiopia, she witnessed women she loved suffer needlessly during childbirth. She knew it didn'...
Today is the day of the midwife. But their work is every day.
Meet Yoseph, a midwife in Assosa, supporting women through pregnancy and childbirth with care that is quiet, constant, and life-changi...
On March 13, 2026, the Canadian Ambassador Nicolas Simard visited Assosa together with UNFPA Representative Koffi Kouame to see how Canada and UNFPA are supporting women’s livelihoods.
Through thi...
A father’s truth.
A priest’s stand.
He saw the harm in his own family.
Now, Fikre Haile is using faith to challenge FGM & protect girls.
The Agaro City Youth Center is now serving young people! 🎉
With an investment of 100+ million ETB (~$645,000 USD), UNFPA and the City Administration have created a modern hub for learning, innovat..
Where the road ends, care continues.
Mobile health clinics are bringing essential sexual and reproductive health services directly to women and girls in pastoralist communities across the Somali re...