Our four Desert Flower Centers

The Desert Flower Foundation not only cares for women and girls who are at risk of FGM.
Our four Desert Flower Centers

Berlin - Stockholm - Paris - Amsterdam

At the four Desert Flower Centers in Berlin, Stockholm, Paris and Amsterdam, women who have already undergone genital mutilation receive holistic medical care, including plastic surgery. This is unique in the world.
  • The world's first holistic care center for women affected by genital mutilation was opened in cooperation with the Waldfriede Hospital in Berlin. The Desert Flower Center in Berlin offers reconstructive surgery, gynaecological, urological and psychological care. Workshops and training courses are also organised for African communities, medical staff, teaching staff, social workers, development workers, local authorities and NGOs.
  • In collaboration with the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm and the Hôpital Delafontaine in Paris, further Desert Flower Centers have been opened in Sweden and France.
  • With the Dutch surgeon doctor Refaat Karim, the Desert Flower Foundation opened the Desert Flower Surgical Center, a training center for surgeons, gynaecologists and urologists, in Amsterdam in 2014. Medical staff from France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Senegal, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Brazil have taken part in training courses to date.