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Meryl Streep

Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe

Women at the Aberdeen Womens Center Sierra Leone

Isatu with friends at Aberdeen Womens Center Sierra Leone

Mother and Child at Aberdeen Womens Center Sierra Leone

Preparing for Gladi Gladi ceremony

An INTERNATIONAL FILM CIRCUIT Release of a FREEDOM FROM FISTULA FOUNDATION and VERTICAL ASCENT Presentation SHOUT GLADI GLADI

Narrated by Academy Award® winning actress Meryl Streep, SHOUT GLADI GLADI celebrates the extraordinary people who rescue African women and girls from obstetric fistula, a medical condition that can turn them into reviled outcasts.

Directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy, and filmed in Malawi and Sierra Leone, the film spotlights the quest of Ann Gloag, the indefatigable philanthropist and former nurse who drives the movement to save these vulnerable women, and presents the patients as they tell stirring tales of their struggles and triumphs.

Everything culminates with the exuberant Gladi Gladi ceremony, a singing and dancing blowout that marks the day the women return home cured.