Walking Back to Happiness

Overview

Australian surgeons Reg and Catherine Hamlin arrived in Ethiopia intending to stay for only three years. Thirty years later they are still there tackling the huge medical problem of Fistula - a condition caused by childbirth injuries - which blights the lives of hundreds of thousands of women in the Third World. The Hamlins built a hospital with charity funds and began treating patients. So far they have transformed the lives of 14,000 young women who were living as outcasts, rejected by their husbands, families and villages. Anne Diamond narrates their story and follows one of the most recent arrivals at their hospital, 17-year-old Wubit Abune.