A Movie Worth Watching

*I sent this out as an e-mail originally:

There is a documentary being shown TODAY, 13 May called "A Walk to Beautiful". I know this is very late notice. Sorry, but I was up country all weekend and only found out it was being shown this morning.

It is an excellent movie that tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from obstetric fistula (a childbirth complication that causes chronic incontinence) and follows their journeys to a hospital that provides fistula surgery. This is the condition that I wrote about in my last newsletter, which is also known as Vesicovaginal fistula.

I have been told it is airing tonight at 8 pm on the PBS/ NOVA stations (in Gainesville Ch 5 and Ft Lauderdale Ch 2). It is also showing later in the week, so if you can not watch it tonight I would recommend that you try to see it later, record it, TIVO it, whatever! It really is a beautifully done film and took over 2 years to shoot in Ethiopia. One of the doctors who performs these surgeries on the ship also works at this hospital and he is the one who let us see a copy on board.

http://www.walktobeautiful.com/