“I have been pregnant nine times, but I gave birth for the first time last Friday. My first pregnancy was in the year 2000. I was in labor for a long time, and there was a lot of confusion and chaos. I was supposed to give birth naturally, but in the end, the baby died. Since then, I’ve had incontinence [the result of an obstetric fistula] and I have been unable to carry a child to term. It was terrible not to be able to have a baby. It was a desperate feeling. I saw a number of doctors to try to have the fistula repaired. Eventually I was able to have fistula repair surgery during a campaign.