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A Walk To Beautiful
Ayehu, Almaz, Zewdie, Wubete Yenenesh and suffered through prolonged labor, unrelieved obstructed in a country with few hospitals and even fewer roads to reach them. Although he survived the experience of childbirth often fatal, they were left with a dead baby and feeling, as Ayehu tells us that “even death would be better than this.”
Obstructed labor has left each with incontinence. We found Ayehu, 25, who lives in a makeshift hut behind her mother’s house, where she has hidden for four years, rejected by his brothers and neighbors. She timidly begins his journey on foot, but once it reaches the Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, for the first time realizes that she is not the only person in the world suffer from this problem. At the hospital we met Almaz, a woman also in her 20s who was kidnapped by her now-husband in a village market and has suffered from double fistula for three years.
Zewdie, 38, has five children her mother’s desire to be well. Although abandoned by her husband, Zewdie supported by strong extended family around her. As Wubete and Yenenesh, both marriage and 17, and the beginning of his small physical stature (the result of malnutrition and heavy labor) determined the tragic outcome of her first pregnancy.
For these two girls, the cure is not simple. We are with them in their struggle with disappointing news, and later as the determination of his youthful triumphs. We each of these women on their way to the Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, where they find solace for the first time in years, and stayed with them in their lives begin to change. (Excerpt from walktobeautiful.com)
A Walk To Beautiful,
Beautiful!!
It crushes my soul for her to be thrown out by her family but she did have a happy ending thank GOD. When your poor it’s extremely difficult, they were definitely strong women.
This is such a touching film I am a Kenyan and I am embarassed to say that this happens even in my home country. Children are married off early and when they get sick, are shunned from society. It is good that this information is out. People should let children enjoy their childhood. God gave man the gift of choice. Who are we to take it away?
i salute the strength bravery and courage these girls have. looking at the big water container they carry, i would have given up, let alone to carry it miles away. you help me feel lucky, alive, healthy, but i am not even one quarter of you…
I just saw this on PBS today. It was really deep.
Brilliant to adapt employment opportunities at the orphanage !!
Oh,,,,,i cry last night because of such problem im facing,,,and after watching this i felt sorry that im more lucky compared to this women who have nothing,,,I lost my money in somewhere and i cry a lot ,,,,and this video is a good motivational one that you come to realize how lucky you are compared to some people the world who have nothing,,,,thanks to this,
I am a 17-year-old Ethiopian girl who is adopted by Dutch parents. Seeing Wubete’s struggle hit a nerve, because she is the same age as I am and has already been through inimaginable pain and adversity. I guess this is what my birth-mom was trying to protect me from. A life of struggle. All the women left an impression, but Wubete really opened my eyes to how lucky I got.
Oh beautiful Wubete, how my heart is breaking from the pain you’ve been through.And all the likes of you..Oh man, this is real pain and what have we people deserved to endure this?How evil is Man.. just look at you, and them.I don’t do these comment situations, but I promise to one sweet day, Wubete, fight and help as much as I can to make the world a better place for the pure right-hearted & good-hearted ones. The rest, most of them, can get abolished. I’m still fighting. 1 sweet day..
This is the second time I’ve watched this now, and it still has a powerful effect. What beautiful spirits these girls possess. Makes me wonder how much women over the centuries have suffered, with no-one to tell their stories.
This is why we need good nutrition, good healthcare and laws to protect young girls from too-early marriage and from sexual abuse by older men, not just in Western societies but everywhere on Earth. A small, malnourished, young girl has no business being coerced or forced into childbearing before she’s physically, mentally and emotionally ready and willing to face and withstand the rigors of pregnancy and childbirth. God bless everyone who is helping these women.
Beautiful, heartbreaking video. The advertisements throughout it for long-lasting lipstick and face-scrubbers were horribly placed, jarring and embarrassing. What a contrast between the frivolous crap we let the media convince us we need to buy for ourselves vs. what really matters in the world.
Machist societies. Disgraceful. Hopefully women and girls will be better respected everywhere in the world. Well understood, women and girls, and clever men and boys, must fight for that to happen. Lightful and loveful day(s).
Posts say ‘how can I help?’. This is about the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Relief Hospital in Ethiopia. Google it: you can donate online. The charity is one of the best – very little spent on admin and adverts. Your money goes straight to the hospital. I think I remember that the ops cost $250 each, to change someone’s life. Hamlin is now training more doctors and putting midwives in the villages. Give what you can! P.S. I’ve nothing to do with the charity. I’m just an engineer in Brisbane.
Each time I see images of people in poor countries struggling the way they do each and every day, it makes me sick to think that I have so much more money and possessions than they do. I am thankful for God’s provision and blessing, but at the end of the day, the poor know what it means to suffer like Jesus did more than I will ever know. For this, I admire their strength and courage.
@jessica4hever , you are absolutly non-sense, this problem or any other problems occure in few places to few people compared to the wide place and the general population. yet, you concluded that had you not gone out, your chance in ethiopia were like these girls, atually your chance to gone through like this is less than 1 %..in your statemnt i see arogance, i am glad arogant like you left ethiopia
According to statistics:2010 pre-Christmas sales were $584.3 billion.This goes to prove that Americans are clueless and have no sense of humanity because with that much money they can build Hospitals, Schools and homes for underprivileged people of Africa . If Christmas is about the spirit of God and the birth of Jesus Christ, then Americans are the anti-Christ! If I offended you then do yourself and the world a favor and donate your holiday spending money to UN or Red-Cross.Amen
This is so humbling. I am so lucky to have been born in Canada. God help these women, they get treated like dogs by family. This situation happens to them because they have complications through giving birth and their husbands treat them like cattle, makes me cry. T___T
this was such a great film , but it sickens me that in 2011 this is going on anywhere in the world , everyone should have access to medical care and the freedom to make their own life choices, for these young women to be forced into this then shunned and shamed for it makes me feel so helpless. i think of stuff like this each time i see a diamond encrusted blackberry or 26 inch rims or when our congress spends weeks debateing steriods in baseball….
JAJAJAJAJA .46:28 to 46:33,i think is one of the most beautiful moments in the film.All Mrs Almaz wanted to be again was normal like her friends and she got her whish.The moment she saw her husband she started with the nagging ,how much more normal can you get? (no more shame,apalogizing,bowing.. she is whole again) poor guy looks scare…I love this film but everytime i wacth it my allergies start acting up,.. pero no importa ..IS OK laugfther is not the only good thing for the body