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	<title>Flying Doctors Society of Africa &#187; Sarafina</title>
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		<title>Kisii Fistula Camp 16th-22nd September 2012 (Catherine Kwamboka’s Story)</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Kwamboka]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catherine Kwamboka (26), mother to Sarafina (8) was one of the beneficiaries of this camp. She narrates: I had a disagreement with my husband and ran away from home that night and slept at the neighbors place. The following day when I came I found my daughter had been left with the grandmother and she <a class="read-more" href="https://www.flyingdoctorsafrica.org/kisii-fistula-camp-16th-22nd-september-2012-catherine-kwambokas-story/">...Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Catherine Kwamboka (26), mother to Sarafina (8) was one of the beneficiaries of this <strong><a href="https://www.flyingdoctorsafrica.org/2012/10/kisii-fistula-camp-16th-22nd-september-2012/" target="_blank">camp</a></strong>. She narrates:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I had a disagreement with my husband and ran away from home that night and slept at the neighbors place. The following day when I came I found my daughter had been left with the grandmother and she was crying very much.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I tried everything to calm her down even breast feeding didn’t work she was only 2 years old then. Its then that I realized that she was leaking urine but I thought it will just stop by its self since she was still young. I later realized that Sarafina never wanted me to even touch her private parts even while showering her <em><strong>“I never suspected rape, until we went to hospital at age of 6 years in 2009 and was informed that my child had been raped”</strong></em>. She had a perineal tear (Injury of the vagina and rectum).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I was asked to come for this camp but I always missed the radio announcement and for last year and it was too late for me, but fortunate enough this time the doctors told me the date and I came early for my child to be repaired. Sarafina underwent 2 surgeries i.e. Colostomy and perineal repair that was done 2 days later. <strong><em>“Am happy she can have a normal life like other children and I promise to take good care of her that she will never go though such pain again”.</em></strong></p>
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