Every Step Tells a Story: 15 Years of Transforming Lives
Just as each child’s journey unfolds step by step, MiracleFeet’s mission has grown and strengthened over time. Fifteen years since we first began, we’ve refined our approach, built resilient systems, and deepened our impact.
Year at a Glance
- 17,846 new patients enrolled in treatment
- 1,400+ providers trained
- 60 new clinics opened
- 49 global partners across 37 countries
- 1 new country program and 8 new country partners
- 6 countries reached at least 70% of newborns with clubfoot
The Future We’re Building Together
It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in 15 years–from our first clinic in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to supporting treatment in 37 countries and 515 clinics today. This year marked our most impactful yet: 17,846 children began treatment bringing our all-time total to 116,795
Behind every one of these numbers is a story of transformation—children gaining strength, confidence, and mobility. To ensure these outcomes endure, this year we introduced Good Feet at Four, a powerful new metric that tracks children through the end of bracing to ensure lasting, functional feet and a lifetime of mobility and independence.
While we are incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved together, we also recognize the difficult moment facing global health. Major cuts to development funding are creating ripple effects across healthcare systems worldwide. At a time when global progress feels fragile, our mission offers something rare: proof that sustained, local investment can still create lasting change. Through pandemics, natural disasters, and political unrest, we have remained steadfast in our belief that every child deserves the chance to walk. Our work—eliminating a preventable disability by strengthening national health systems and building local capacity—matters more than ever as international aid contracts.
Clubfoot remains one of the most solvable challenges in global health. With your continued trust and generosity, we can ensure that every child born with this condition can walk, run, and live a full, active life.
None of this is possible without you, our supporters. Your belief in our mission proves that high-quality, cost-effective clubfoot treatment can, and will, be scaled globally.
Thank you for fueling this journey and for your continued compassion and commitment to a world where no child lives with untreated clubfoot.
Sincerely,
Daphne de Souza Lima Sorensen,
MiracleFeet CEO
"I've watched MiracleFeet transform lives
…and it’s thrilling.”
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
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