“Life at the village requires one to walk a lot either going to school, to fetch water or doing other activities. We want our son to be able to help out and help himself too. We are worried that if he won’t be able to walk properly he will end up being dependent,” say Furahini’s parents.
Meet Furahini, a one-year-old boy from Tanzania. Furahini has a bilateral clubfoot, a condition that will force him to walk on the side of his foot as he learns to walk. The clubfoot is not only painful but “will put him at risk of developing early osteoarthritis later on, if not treated,” reports our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation.
Furahini is the second child born to a father who is a livestock keeper and a mother who is a homemaker. Most of the parents’ “earnings come from selling goats and not too long ago they lost most of their goats to disease,” continues our medical partner. “The small vegetable garden outside their house is the one that rescued them from not going hungry when they had no goats.”
For $1,160 we can fund an orthopedic procedure for Furahini. The treatment will allow him to walk normally and prevent osteoarthritis later in life.