diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 75e182fd..1650c9f7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ __Special thanks to Albert Teoh and Sameera Perera for contributing to this rele
 - Fixes a bug in Simplify where invalid interior rings would be omitted rather
   than producing an error.
 
+- Adds a wrapper in the `geos` package for the `GEOSMakeValid_r` function
+  (exposed as `MakeValid`).
+
 ## v0.34.0
 
 2021-11-02
diff --git a/geos/entrypoints.go b/geos/entrypoints.go
index 6b57a6d4..828c1a77 100644
--- a/geos/entrypoints.go
+++ b/geos/entrypoints.go
@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ package geos
 #cgo LDFLAGS: -lgeos_c
 #cgo CFLAGS: -Wall
 #include "geos_c.h"
+
+#define MAKE_VALID_MIN_VERSION "3.8.0"
+#define MAKE_VALID_MISSING ( \
+	GEOS_VERSION_MAJOR < 3 || \
+	(GEOS_VERSION_MAJOR == 3 && GEOS_VERSION_MINOR < 8) \
+)
+#if MAKE_VALID_MISSING
+// This stub implementation always fails:
+GEOSGeometry *GEOSMakeValid_r(GEOSContextHandle_t handle, const GEOSGeometry* g) { return NULL; }
+#endif
+
 */
 import "C"
 
@@ -309,3 +320,19 @@ func SymmetricDifference(a, b geom.Geometry, opts ...geom.ConstructorOption) (ge
 	})
 	return result, wrap(err, "executing GEOSSymDifference_r")
 }
+
+// MakeValid can be used to convert an invalid geometry into a valid geometry.
+// It does this by keeping the original control points and constructing a new
+// geometry that is valid and similar (but not the same as) the original
+// invalid geometry. If the input geometry is valid, then it is returned
+// unaltered.
+func MakeValid(g geom.Geometry, opts ...geom.ConstructorOption) (geom.Geometry, error) {
+	if C.MAKE_VALID_MISSING != 0 {
+		return geom.Geometry{}, unsupportedGEOSVersionError{
+			C.MAKE_VALID_MIN_VERSION, "MakeValid"}
+	}
+	result, err := unaryOpG(g, opts, func(ctx C.GEOSContextHandle_t, g *C.GEOSGeometry) *C.GEOSGeometry {
+		return C.GEOSMakeValid_r(ctx, g)
+	})
+	return result, wrap(err, "executing GEOSMakeValid_r")
+}
diff --git a/geos/entrypoints_test.go b/geos/entrypoints_test.go
index ec9f79f6..32ccf8be 100644
--- a/geos/entrypoints_test.go
+++ b/geos/entrypoints_test.go
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/peterstace/simplefeatures/geom"
 )
 
-func geomFromWKT(t *testing.T, wkt string) geom.Geometry {
+func geomFromWKT(t *testing.T, wkt string, opts ...geom.ConstructorOption) geom.Geometry {
 	t.Helper()
-	geom, err := geom.UnmarshalWKT(wkt)
+	geom, err := geom.UnmarshalWKT(wkt, opts...)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("could not unmarshal WKT:\n  wkt: %s\n  err: %v", wkt, err)
 	}
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ func expectNoErr(t *testing.T, err error) {
 	}
 }
 
+func expectErr(t *testing.T, err error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("unexpected error but got nil")
+	}
+}
+
 func expectGeomEq(t *testing.T, got, want geom.Geometry, opts ...geom.ExactEqualsOption) {
 	t.Helper()
 	if !geom.ExactEquals(got, want, opts...) {
@@ -767,3 +774,28 @@ func TestSymmetricDifference(t *testing.T) {
 
 	expectGeomEq(t, got, want, geom.IgnoreOrder)
 }
+
+func TestMakeValid(t *testing.T) {
+	for i, tt := range []struct {
+		input      string
+		wantOutput string
+	}{
+		{
+			"POLYGON((0 0,2 2,2 0,0 2,0 0))",
+			"MULTIPOLYGON(((0 0,0 2,1 1,0 0)),((2 0,1 1,2 2,2 0)))",
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(strconv.Itoa(i), func(t *testing.T) {
+			_, err := geom.UnmarshalWKT(tt.input)
+			expectErr(t, err)
+			in := geomFromWKT(t, tt.input, geom.DisableAllValidations)
+			gotGeom, err := MakeValid(in)
+			if _, ok := err.(unsupportedGEOSVersionError); ok {
+				t.Skip(err)
+			}
+			expectNoErr(t, err)
+			wantGeom := geomFromWKT(t, tt.wantOutput)
+			expectGeomEq(t, gotGeom, wantGeom)
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/geos/errors.go b/geos/errors.go
index ea29198d..a0cd66ad 100644
--- a/geos/errors.go
+++ b/geos/errors.go
@@ -2,9 +2,29 @@ package geos
 
 import "fmt"
 
+// #include "geos_c.h"
+import "C"
+
 func wrap(err error, format string, args ...interface{}) error {
 	if err == nil {
 		return nil
 	}
 	return fmt.Errorf(format+": %w", append(args, err)...)
 }
+
+var currentGEOSVersion = fmt.Sprintf(
+	"%d.%d.%d",
+	C.GEOS_VERSION_MAJOR,
+	C.GEOS_VERSION_MINOR,
+	C.GEOS_VERSION_PATCH,
+)
+
+type unsupportedGEOSVersionError struct {
+	requiredGEOSVersion string
+	operation           string
+}
+
+func (e unsupportedGEOSVersionError) Error() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%s is unsupported in GEOS %s, requires at least GEOS %s",
+		e.operation, currentGEOSVersion, e.requiredGEOSVersion)
+}
diff --git a/geos/handle.go b/geos/handle.go
index 93845d75..c7eacc1d 100644
--- a/geos/handle.go
+++ b/geos/handle.go
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ char *marshal(GEOSContextHandle_t handle, const GEOSGeometry *g, size_t *size, c
 GEOSGeometry const *noop(GEOSContextHandle_t handle, const GEOSGeometry *g) {
 	return g;
 }
-
 */
 import "C"
 
@@ -62,6 +61,7 @@ func newHandle() (*handle, error) {
 		h.release()
 		return nil, errors.New("malloc failed")
 	}
+	C.memset((unsafe.Pointer)(h.errBuf), 0, 1024)
 
 	h.context = C.sf_init(unsafe.Pointer(h.errBuf))
 	if h.context == nil {