We go to Uganda and with a team of local doctors and nurses run week-long surgical missions in a rural hospital. Women suffering from incontinence from birth injuries are transported to the hospital. After individual consults, we understand the needs of each woman and offer surgical management for those who need it. We perform the ...
The Alon Project
The Alon Project – November Medical Mission

Field of Interest
- Health/wellbeing and medical research
- International aid and development
Target Population
- Women and girls

The Alon Project is a non-profit organisation that addresses one of the most serious issues affecting women in the 21st Century, obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula is a preventable birth complication that affects the world’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged women. It causes constant incontinence of urine or faeces with subsequent devastating impacts of social isolation, loss of employment, infection and infertility. This injury is both entirely preventable and treatable with the appropriate resources and training for healthcare staff. Our work is focused in Uganda, which has some of the highest rates of fistula worldwide.
The Alon Project helps to cure these women through surgery which enables them to return to society. We focus on up-skilling local doctors and nurses to successfully treat these women and assist them to recover.
The mission of the Alon Project is:
1. Treatment for women suffering from obstetric fistula through life-changing surgery
2. Reintegration of these women into society
3. Prevention of future obstetric fistula cases through improving maternal child health
4. Capacity building and sustainability through training local health professionals
5. Empowerment and education of local women
Our last mission involved treating 58 women suffering from incontinence from birth injuries across two rural Uganda towns. We are looking to finance our next medical mission in November 2024 and expand on our previous efforts by running a neonatal resuscitation course to further support local staff and decrease neonatal deaths.
Grants to The Alon Project will be auspiced by Australian Friends of Tel Aviv University (ABN 69618787901).
Project Summary
We go to Uganda and with a team of local doctors and nurses run week-long surgical missions in a rural hospital. Women suffering from incontinence from birth injuries are transported to the hospital. After individual consults, we understand the needs of each woman and offer surgical management for those who need it. We perform the surgeries, to repair the birth injury, giving these women back control over their bowel and bladder function. Women who have a fistula stay in the hospital for two weeks until we are able to remove their urinary catheter. Cured from their incontinence, they are transported back to their community and helped to reintegrate back into society. We also help prevent obstetric fistula and have a strong focus on capacity building, providing hands-on teaching to local healthcare providers on how to prevent, diagnose and treat obstetric fistula and how to best care for these women.
The cost to change these women’s lives is only $500 AUD. This covers their transport to the hospital, all hospital related costs including extra local staff, medications and equipment and reintegration back into society. This is necessary as these women can’t even afford the bus to get to hospital.
In November we will be running a neonatal CPR course to decrease preventable neonatal deaths. We will also be training local health providers on how to teach others, empowering them to improve local practice and to create a sustainable solution with compounding positive impact.
Project Outcomes
We expect similar results to our last mission in 2022. During our last mission through surgical camps at two separate rural hospitals we treated and cured 58 women suffering from incontinence from birth injuries. We would anticipate being able to support 50-70 women during this November project. We will provide education to local doctors, midwifes and nurses on how to prevent, diagnose and treat these injuries as well as how to wholesomely care for these resilient women that access treatment through our project. We will also train local staff in neonatal resuscitation which allows them to support babies who are born with difficulties establishing their breathing when they go from inside the womb to being in the world. We will also teach and empower 1-2 healthcare workers to become neonatal CPR course teachers themselves to even further our impact. We expect these interventions, and
this project will improve maternal and neonatal outcomes immediately and longer term.
Budget Breakdown
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