2022-2025

Ensuring Treatment For Clubfoot To Every Child

2022-2025

MiracleFeet

MiracleFeet is on a mission to create universal access to treatment for clubfoot, a treatable birth anomaly that affects 200,000 babies every year. The organisation is bringing the low-cost, nonsurgical standard of care, widely available in the US and Europe, to high-need countries worldwide. As of June 2022, MiracleFeet has supported care for nearly 67,000 children in 33 countries. We’re funding them to treat over 50,000 new children by 2025.

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CHALLENGE

Two million children live with the pain and stigma of untreated clubfoot, a condition that causes one or both feet to turn in and down making walking painful and difficult, if not impossible. Children living with clubfoot face incredible hurdles their whole lives. Of the 200,000 babies born with clubfoot every year, most live in low- and middle-income countries where fewer than 15% have access to appropriate treatment.

ACTION

95% of clubfoot cases can be cured using a simple series of plaster casts followed by a foot brace worn at night to prevent relapse. This nonsurgical intervention results in full correction of the foot in four to six weeks. MiracleFeet works with local clinics and health workers, across public and private health systems, to bring this low-cost solution to children who need it. They train providers, build awareness, improve clubfoot identification and referral processes, provide bracing and casting, and implement strategies to improve adherence to treatment.

MiracleFeet expects to treat over 50,000 new children by 2025 and enter at least six new countries, while continuing to provide follow-up care to the 18,000+ children currently in treatment.

IMPACT

Treatment changes everything. 98% of children treated can walk, run, and move for life.

of children treated

can walk, run, and move for life

+4000

Providers

in clubfoot treatment trained by MiracleFeet in 30+ countries since 2011