Tumaini is a twelve-year-old girl from Tanzania, and the first of her mother’s five children. Tumaini is an earnest girl who loves going to school and has just recently finished exams for finishing primary school. She is waiting for her results, but really hopes to go on to secondary school.
Tumaini was involved in a hit and run car accident on her way to school when she was five years old, she sustained serious injuries on her legs and was treated in two different hospitals for a period of several months. She has a residual left ankle/foot deformity that means that she walks on the outside of her foot. She experiences great pain when she is walking.
Tumaini needs surgery to correct the deformity and turn her foot inward. This surgery, which includes long-term treatment and rehabilitation, will cost $1,160. It will allow her to walk more normally and without pain.
“I wish for my foot to be straightened and so that I can look like others,” Tumaini shared.