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Busy Little Bees!
For the last few months the Votoka team have been busy with 1. Post-operative nursing training; 2. Awareness raising activities; 3....
Mary Chimbili
Sep 24 min read
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Interview with Dr Walter Strangway Hospital
This interview took place at the end of the May 2025 operations campaign in Bie province. Our Campaign Coordinator, Veronica Jolomba,...
Mary Chimbili
Aug 291 min read
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Interview with Angolan Public Television
This interview took place at the beginning of the May 2025 operations campaign in Bie province. Our Trauma and Reintegration Coordinator,...
Mary Chimbili
Aug 291 min read
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Why Reintegration Matters!
Can you see these two beautiful ladies? They are both survivors of Obstetric Fistula. They both travelled to Bie in May this year in the...
Mary Chimbili
Jul 21 min read
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Nine Years and Counting!
Our ParkRun event celebrated its nine year anniversary last weekend (28th of June, 2025). Happy Birthday!!! A massive total of 102...
Mary Chimbili
Jul 11 min read
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International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
Yesterday, the 23rd of May, was the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. Improving maternal health and ending obstetric fistula...
Mary Chimbili
May 243 min read
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First National Conference on the Role of the Church in the Prevention of Obstetric Fistula Held on the 27th of March 2025
Opening of the First National Conference on Obstetric Fistula Prayer(Secretary of State Dr Inocêncio, Seretary General of CICA Rev....
Mary Chimbili
Mar 314 min read
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Happy New Year from Our Family to Yours
Votoka has ended 2024 on a high, filled with love and hope for the future, and a renewed dedication to the prevention of obstetric...
Mary Chimbili
Jan 42 min read
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from our Community Development Program!
The team from the Community Development program have spent the last 2 months organising: eight ParkRun events at Kulele one donation of...
Mary Chimbili
Dec 27, 20242 min read
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Outgoing October!
Nganja Park - The inaugural "Fyote Pathways" event, organised by 10Padronizada Community Library in Luanda, was celebrated in Bailundo...
Mary Chimbili
Nov 1, 20241 min read
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Sunny September
Despite September normally heralding the beginning of the wet season in Bailundo, it only rained twice during this month. This did mean...
Mary Chimbili
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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"Look at Me!"
Meet Segunda Sezar. She was part of the September campaign in Bie. Once she knew she was cured, her joy was inescapable! On the day she...
Mary Chimbili
Oct 8, 20242 min read
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Another campaign, another hundred stories...
We are currently caring for 78 women who had fistula repair operations at Strangway Hospital in Bie between August 30 and September 5....
Mary Chimbili
Sep 15, 20242 min read
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Nurse Prevention and Awareness Training in Benguela Province
During July and August this year our Obstetric Fistula Program, led by Petra Jobse, conducted Prevention and Awareness Training about...
Mary Chimbili
Sep 9, 20242 min read
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Amazing August in the Community Development Program (Part 3)
Park Run Five ParkRun events were held this month! Park Run events were held on the 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st of the month. These...
Mary Chimbili
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Amazing August in the Community Development Program (Part 2)
Handwriting Program Over the course of the school holidays ParkRun Assistant Manager Venâncio "Mandela" Daniel has been volunteering his...
Mary Chimbili
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Amazing August in the Community Development Program (Part 1)
This last month the Community Development program continued its regular ParkRun events as well as the first ever school holiday program...
Mary Chimbili
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Kulele - Family Run and Walk (ParkRun)
Inspired by participating in a local ParkRun ( parkrun.com.au ) event in Australia, Tavares Chimbili decided that he should replicate...
Mary Chimbili
Aug 15, 20242 min read
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We may have been quiet, but we haven't been still!
Over the last month the Votoka team has been busy visiting patients in their homes, conducting mobilisation and awareness events,...
Mary Chimbili
Aug 6, 20242 min read
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This Campaign is Over - Our Work Continues.
The May operations campaign has ended with our last patients leaving on July the 1st to return to their homes. We started with 213 women...
Mary Chimbili
Jul 10, 20242 min read
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