Shout Gladi Gladi Seattle Film Screening
- Thu, Oct 8, 2015 from 06:00 PM to 09:30 PM
- Seattle Program Center
- The Mountaineers
- iCal
Narrated by Academy Award® winning actress Meryl Streep, SHOUT GLADI GLADI celebrates the extraordinary people who rescue African women and girls from obstetric fistula, a medical condition that can turn them into reviled outcasts.
- $25 for General Admission
- $20 per person for groups of 10 or more
Directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy, and filmed in Malawi and Sierra Leone, the film spotlights the quest of Ann Gloag, the philanthropist and former nurse who drives the movement to save these vulnerable women, and presents the patients as they tell stirring tales of their struggles and triumphs.
Everything culminates with the exuberant Gladi Gladi ceremony, a singing and dancing blowout that marks the day the women return home cured.
Dr. Jeffrey Wilkinson, Lead Fistula Surgeon at the Fistula Care Center in Lilongwe, Malawi, will be our guest of honor. Dr. Wilkinson, along with Carolyn Anderman, One By One’s Interim Executive Director, will discuss the impact and outcomes of treating .
This event is hosted by One By One, who's mission is to end obstetric fistula and improve the lives of women and girls suffering with this devastating childbirth injury. For information about sponsoring this event or media inquiries, please contact julie@fightfistula.org
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