Leading the world in the treatment of childbirth injuries and the restoration of health and hope.
Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital (TWCH)
TWCH is the first and only hospital in Uganda dedicated to women’s health and fistula. Here, women join a sisterhood of survivors, heal, learn and establish a brighter, self-confident future. MHF has applied almost $3M to build, equip, train and sustain this amazing work. Located in Soroti, Teso Region, East Uganda, TWCH’s major goal is ending maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in Uganda. Our donor base provides continuous support of ~10% of the facility’s annual operating budget. World-class, specialized surgical treatment together with urodynamics, physiotherapy and mental health care address the challenges of restoring the lives and livelihoods of women and girls.
Settling in at TWCH
Women and girls in rural areas suffering with childbirth injuries are provided free transportation to TWCH, where patients receive free surgical repairs provided by specially trained physicians and nurses. The hospital staff—some of them fistula survivors themselves—offer sympathy and compassion to the patients at TWCH.
Getting Started and Picking up Steam
TWCH officially opened in August 2019 by the Association for the Rehabilitation and Re-orientation of Women for Development (TERREWODE) with support from international partners in the United States, Australia and Germany.
- It is a best practice, community-based, non-governmental organization.
- It’s founder and executive director, Alice Emasu Seruyange, is an outstanding leader, journalist and passionate advocate for gender equality and social justice in Uganda.
- A regional center of excellence, TWCH is one of only four worldwide FIGO-accredited surgical training centers, educating doctors from Uganda and abroad.
- 1000+ women have received holistic surgical treatment and reintegration care.
Learn more about our hospital—TWCH—in Uganda
Dr. Barbara Teltschik—urologist, Fistula e.V. Germany Board Chair and IFA Honorary Board Director—is a driving force for medical-technical equipment and the development of medical standards, in particular at TWCH.
Once driven from the center of spiritual and community life—a church or mosque— women express extreme happiness at their return to the fold.
Phase 2 – Maternity and neonatal care and prevention at TWCH
This planning phase is very exciting. A new facility, located at TWCH, will specialize in comprehensive obstetric care and deliveries for Ugandan women and girls to avoid childbirth trauma and tragic mother and infant deaths. It will have a local capacity to deliver 1,500 babies per year; and the ability to manage complications with high quality surgical, ICU and NICU departments.
A great opportunity
We depend on the amazing generosity of high net-worth individuals and private foundations to fund maternal capacity. Please contact MHF’s Executive Director if you or someone you know would like to explore this opportunity:
Joe Kinehan, info@maternalhealthfund.com or (408) 887-7355.