Essential Relief International Foundation (ERI) is a duly registered non-governmental organization with

Reg. No. CG011722018 in the Republic of Ghana. Our main objective is to serve humanity and
community through the provision of essential needs with focus on hygiene and health, prison aid and
safety.

ERI has over the few years of existence, embarked on a number of projects in the country, including
providing healthcare to Munkayata Kayaba, conversion of an otherwise inhumane shed she was sleeping
under into a decent accommodation, signing her unto the national health insurance scheme, taking her
to the hospital for the first time and providing her with clothes and a care giver in the Oti Region of
Ghana.

ERI on May 23, 2019, sponsored the banner for the World Commemoration of Obstetric Fistula and
organized a forum in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana, where we educated and sensitized
the people on the causes and prevention of Obstetric Fistula and to create awareness of the condition.
ERI embarked on a community entry project where we recruited women in villages like Fumbisi,
Zukpene, Dankpapiifi and some surrounding villages and towns who are waiting for a corrective surgery.

Community entry is deemed necessary and vital to the elimination of Obstetric Fistula because of the
women with the condition do not know there is help through surgery. And due to the stigma associated
with the condition, most of these women live in isolation. Obstetric Fistula is an abnormal opening
between a woman’s genital tract and her urinary tract or rectum. It is estimated that about two million
people in sub-saharan Africa and Asia live with the condition. Many people in Ghana have never heard
of obstetric fistula and the damage it poses in our society. ERI seeks to make sensitization and
awareness creation as one of the main tools in the eradication of obstetric fistula.

ERI has sort to improve the lives of inmates of Winneba Local Prison in the provision of water closets in
all ten cells of the prison and constructed the main entrance arch of the prison. With the help of
Unilever Ghana, who donated some toothbrushes and toothpastes and some medicated soap to ERI,
which we shared for the inmates at the commissioning of the above projects. ERI treated both officers
and inmates to good food and drinks as well. ERI gave the inmates of Nsawam female prisons six months
supply of sanitary pads and hot meals for that day. The chaplaincy of the Nsawam medium security
benefited from a donation of a brand new Dell desktop computer to help in their work.

Currently, in this year of 2020, ERI plans to continue with the objective of creating more awareness and
sensitization oo Obstetric Fistula through its ARRE project, fully termed as ADOPT, REPAIR, RESTORE
AND EMPOWER. At ERI we believe that the health condition erodes the personal dignity and health of
women through stigmatization which affects the social and economic life and therefore something
needs to be done to safeguard their health and dignity.

In line with our project, we would like to seek the audience of the congregants of (church) to sensitize
them on the woes of Obstetric Fistula on a woman. This is to make people aware of this condition and its
direct or indirect effects to the country and economy as a whole. Essential Relief International is
introducing a program on Obstetric Fistula for churches— ARRE: ADOPT, REPAIR, RESTORE AND
EMPOWER. We believe this program is an important way to help your congregation learn an important
health information.

We would like to tell you more about it. Essential Relief International will call you within the week to
answer any questions you might have. We hope that you will be interested in partnering with us for this
new program.