Since 2011 LEFI has continued to find women and girls living with fistula and connect them with life transforming surgical care. Through Patient linkage component, over 2,000 women living with fistula have been supported to date.

Basing on LEFI’s follow-up data, over 80% of fistula survivors are unable to reintegrate in their communities following the psychological, economic and social consequences of living with Fistula even after successful surgical care. It is this gap in Fistula Treatment Continuum that LEFI bridges by providing supportive structures and opportunities to Fistula Survivors in order to rebuild their lives for smooth and successful reintegration.

In 2017, LEFI started by launching the first eleven (11) Solidarity Groups across the nine (9) counties of LEFI’s operation that saw 286 Fistula Survivors recruited. After successful piloting of the 11 the Solidarity Groups, LEFI scaled up to 27 Solidarity Groups that are supporting 533 fistula survivors.

Solidarity Groups has been tested and proven as a powerful and effective vehicle that LEFI is using to realize its Social Reintegration, Economic Empowerment and the Safe Motherhood goals.

Beneficiaries meet twice a month to support each other and also engage in both Groups’ and Individual IGAs. In order for the women in Groups to successfully start and run profitable IGAs, LEFI provides mentorship, capacity building, technical support and provision of seed fund.

 Groups engage in the listed below Groups’ IGAs;

• Table banking
• Merry-Go Around
• Animal husbandry
• Small-scale farming