Narrated by Academy Award® winning actress Meryl StreepShout Gladi Gladi
chronicles the maternal health care crisis in Africa, and the heroic
efforts to rescue African women from a medical condition during
childbirth that can turn them into reviled outcasts — if they survive.
About
2 million women and girls in Africa and parts of Asia are living with
obstetric fistula, and many die from it every year. Those that survive
are incontinent and shunned in their villages. Filmed in Kenya,
Malawi and Sierra Leone,
Shout Gladi Gladi presents the womens' stirring
struggles, and profiles the quest of Ann Gloag, a former nurse, who
drives a movement to save these vulnerable women from this preventable
and treatable condition.
The root causes of fistula are grinding
poverty and the low status of women and girls, especially in developing
countries. The condition was once prevalent in the U.S. and Europe, but
was nearly eliminated by the early 20th century with improved maternal
care. Gloag works to eradicate fistula by bringing proper
maternal care and outreach programs to the poorest slums and most rural
villages in Africa. More than simply repairing their health, Gloag’s
efforts also empower these women to determine their own futures.
When
the women are cured and ready to return to their homes, they join in a
singing and dancing celebration called Gladi Gladi. No longer outcasts,
they raise their voices in triumph.
Shout Gladi Gladi
illustrates how improving the health of women is fundamental to a strong
and successful nation, especially in developing countries.
ALSO FEATURED:Melinda Gates, cofounder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Wole Soyinka, first African to receive the Nobel Prize for literature
Hawa Hawatouri, founder of the Haikal Institute in Sierra Leone
Dr. Jeffrey P. Wilkinson, Senior Surgical Consultant of the Freedom From Fistula
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