COVID and Clubfoot – Stories from the front lines During the pandemic, many villages are under quarantine in Burkina Faso. As a result, most families cannot get to the clubfoot clinics. For six-month-old Grace, this meant no new braces. But when her parents...
COVID and Clubfoot – Stories from the front linesMany clinics remain open in countries where the spread of COVID-19 has been slow. But that does not mean it is business as usual. Everyone is adjusting to new processes and procedures in order to control the...
Dillsburg, PA (June 3, 2020) ? In recognition of World Clubfoot Day, June 3, Hope Walks has partnered with Medical Aid Films to release a new series of four training videos about this treatable disability. Hope Walks led this effort on behalf of the clubfoot community...
COVID and Clubfoot – Stories from the front lines Yemawayesh has been serving as the parent advisor at the Jimma Clubfoot Clinic in Ethiopia since April 2016. When not at the clinic, she works as a nurse ASN and part-time for her church. This mother of three...
COVID and Clubfoot: Stories from the front linesIshimwe is a little boy in Rwanda with clubfoot. His treatments were going very well until COVID-19 struck. With public transportation shut down in the country, his mom Dinah could no longer take her son to the clinic by...
COVID & Clubfoot ? Stories from the front linesWhat do you do in the middle of a global pandemic that shuts down clubfoot clinics and transportation to those clinics? Bring the clinic to the patients, of course!Hope Walks partner clinics in Honduras have been shut...
Aaron England is like a lot of other 7-year-old boys. He spends time playing outside with friends, riding his bike and swimming. But unlike many kids his age, Aaron is devoting much of his time these days for a special project to raise money to help kids around the...
Dillsburg, PA (May 18, 2020) ? Hope Walks, a non-profit that treats children with clubfoot in Latin America and Africa, has announced it will be starting a partner clinic in its 17th country, Sudan, in the Fiscal Year 2021.? The new clinic will be in partnership with...
COVID & Clubfoot – Stories from the front lines The appointment card is a nice thing to have. Families can post it somewhere so they don?t forget their next appointment. But it is just a piece of paper, after all. But for one Kenyan family, they never...
COVID & Clubfoot – Stories from the front lines Matilde is the mother of 5-month-old Niko who started clubfoot treatment in mid-March in Mozambique. This family, like many we?ve heard from, is having additional challenges getting to the clinic for treatment....
