“I will be very happy to have straight feet. I will be able to wear shoes, and walking and running will be easy,” says ten-year-old Neema.
Neema is from Tanzania and lives with neglected bilateral clubfeet. This condition severely impairs her gait and requires her to use the lateral aspect of her feet. Our Medical Partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, writes, “If not treated, Neema will develop early osteoarthritis”.
Neema lives with her parents and six siblings. In school she likes math and dreams of one day becoming a teacher. Neema likes to skip rope with her friends, but cannot skip as long as the other children, due to her condition. Neema’s parents, who support their large family working as small-scale farmers, are not able to pay for her corrective surgery.
For $715, our medical partner in Tanzania will be able to perform serial casting and bilateral posteromedial release on Neema’s feet.