Join the conversationBlogsNews and views from our UK team and the wider Amref family. Filter by category:All Health and Climate change Health innovations Health worker training Water and disease prevention Women and girlsFilter by year:All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021Showing posts in the category 'Women and girls'Show all posts Updates on stories we shared in 2024In 2024, we had the privilege of sharing the personal stories of some inspirational people: midwives, Community Health Workers, volunte...17th Jan 2025 Women and girls health worker training A revisit to: Hellen HadiaTwo years on from graduating in midwifery, Hellen Hadia is a registered midwife in charge of the maternity unit at Mvolo County Hospita...10th Dec 2024 Women and girls South Sudan From family trade to fighting against FGM/CThe story of how Sarah Sakau went from inflicting the cut of FGM/C to fighting against it - in her mid-eighties.5th Dec 2024 Women and girls Kenya End FGM/C “When we cut a girl, we cut her future short”Jane Nkotai has turned her personal struggle against FGM/C - from running 60km through the night to safety from the cut to living as a...2nd Oct 2024 Kenya Women and girls End FGM/C Safe water and nutrition support for IDPs in EthiopiaAmref, with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, is providing nutrition support and improving the supply of safe drinking water for Intern...14th Aug 2024 WASH Women and girls Ethiopia Emergency response The success stories after fistula surgeryAmref's obstetric fistula programme in Tanzania and Uganda has completed 244 successful surgeries over five years.11th Aug 2024 Women and girls Tanzania Uganda A house call with a differenceHow VHTs improve the health and wellbeing of young Ugandan mothers14th Jun 2024 Uganda Women and girls Samuel Shaban: the unsung hero of Busenge villageSamuel Shaban is a community health worker in Busenge, Tanzania. He has supported more than 20 women living with obstetric fistula to s...23rd May 2024 Tanzania Women and girls The movement to end FGM/C in AfricaThe Girl Generation: Support to Africa-Led Movement to End FGM aims to significantly reducing the practice of FGM/C in Ethiopia, Kenya,...1st Mar 2024 Kenya Women and girlsPaginationGo to page 1Go to page 2 Go to Next page