Alysse Leite-Rogers

Alysse Leite-Rogers, a sales rep with Sutton Group – West Coast Realty, is raising funds and awareness for the Fistula Foundation in connection with an upcoming Mount Kilimanjaro climb.

“I first heard about the Fistula Foundation while enjoying my secret indulgence of Oprah,” she says. “On this particular day in 2003, her guest was a frail-looking woman by the name of Dr. Hamlin.  She spoke about her lifelong work of corrective surgeries for fistula in Africa.”  The patients were girls and women who endured countless hours of labour only to lose their babies and develop tears in internal organs.  Without medical care, those wounds do not heal properly.

“As a woman and a mother, I feel so much gratitude and privilege.  With that comes responsibility…. I hope to raise enough money to pay for 10 women to have this surgery that will change their lives.  Each surgery costs $450.  It’s not a lot to give them back their dignity.”  To learn more and donate, visit www.shesellsvancouver.com.