World Clubfoot Day

Our partners in Latin America are planning activities and presentations, organizing branded t-shirts for partner and clinic staff, ordering pillows for the youngest patients, and decorating the clinics.

Our partner in Somalia is organizing a breakfast for ten children (and their families) who recently finished treatment or who are just beginning. The event will be an opportunity for families to meet and learn from each other, and to share about their clubfoot journeys.

The Uganda team is hosting an event in Fort Portal featuring a speech by the director of the hospital and activities demonstrating the stages of treatment and how it works.

The Liberia Clubfoot Program has introduced Ponseti as a case study for midwives and nursing students at the Faith College of Professional Studies in Monrovia. This initiative will be shared with country officials during the World Clubfoot Day celebration in hopes of expanding the experience to the national level.

With a possible third wave of COVID looming, small events were organized in each zone in Tanzania which include guest speeches and treatment demonstrations. Branded t-shirts will be distributed and the local press have been invited to cover the events.

In South Sudan, a mother’s meeting will assemble several mothers whose children were born with clubfoot and who are now in different stages of treatment or fully treated. The testimonies will be recorded and used for awareness raising throughout the year.