Nicholas D's Story, "Half the Sky", tells  inspiring  stories about women around the developing world, who go through extreme suppression through rape, sexual trafficking, abuse, honor killings, sexism, and so much more. However, this book includes inspiring stories of women who had been in these situations, who have founded non-profits, efforts, businesses, and ways to make income, to help suffering women around them, and to rise out of the suppression that they themselves have been succumbed too.

However, there was a very interesting factor about women's suffering that I had learned in the book.  Fistula damage is a very serious condition among the developing world in Ethiopia. Many women lack the basic resources to health care for child labour. 

Stillbirths are very common, and the mothers are often left with deliberating injuries,  such as having a damaged fistula. This permits many women to have no control over the leaking of their feces and urine. It leaves them with severely damaged self-esteem, isolation, and depression. 

A hospital in Ethiopia, known as the Hamilton Fistula Hospital, is on the mission to help stop this problem.
Link: http://hamlinfistulausa.org/

 There was one very heartbreaking and touching story, that perfectly demonstrates the suffering that women go through in having damaged fistulas. However, with access to adequate healthcare, she was able to change her life.

There was once a woman, named Simeesh Segaye. By the time she came to the hospital for giving birth, the baby was dead. When Simeesh began to recover back from the village, she began leaking urine and feces. She was humiliated from the constant smell of her wastes. 

When the bus came along, for her family to take her back to the hospital, the other passengers took one whiff at her and ordered her off. Any prospect of repair vanished. Simeesh's husband then abandon her. 

Her parents stood by her, but they couldn't abide with her odor, so they built a separate hut for her. Every day they tried to bring her food and water. Simeesh stayed every day alone in that hut, alone, ashamed, and helpless. 

Succumbing to depression, she reverted to a fetal position, but except that she never wanted to move. She curled up that way, for two straight years. She barely ate and drank, because the more she ate or drank, the more waste trickled down her leg. So, she began to starve to death. 

However, with her loving family, willing to sell all of their assets to help their daughter,they ended up taking Simeesh  to a hospital. In the end, Simeesh's fistula was repaired, and she was able to stretch her legs and walk on her own unassisted.