Kahuma Makwato was first brought to Beit CURE Zambia when he was only four days old. He was simply content to be in his mother’s arms – it will be a …

No wishes for riches, fame or great success. All Tasnim wants for her 1 year old boy, Aboud, is to one day walk like a normal boy.

At first, Abo…

Hope’s parents were absolutely thrilled when they learned that they were being blessed with a baby boy. The joy after his birth was short lived as th…

Clubfoot is a relatively easy problem to cure if it is caught in time; with a series of casts and braces, the foot or feet of an infant can be manipulate…

The theories parents and unhelpful onlookers come up with to explain the birth defects of children are anything but boring and unimaginative. Most of the…

In 2011, when we go into a hospital, we expect extremely well informed and researched, if not exact answers to questions like “why did this happen,” …

It is not always easy to write the stories of the people who walk through the door at CURE; there are some people whose lives summed up on paper could ne…

Clubfoot is one of the deformities that is found around the globe, many Doctors now in different countries are busy doing research to find the source of…

When Wisdom Mafinge was two weeks old, his grandmother was giving him a bath when she noticed that he had left clubfoot. While Wisdom’s mother attends …

Born with spina bifida, Catherine developed clubfoot from birth. She was referred from Queens Hospital, a large government hospital close to CURE. Only…

Only 4 days old and without a first name, baby Siyaby was brought to infant clubfoot clinic by her mother seeking help. As a village custom that is stil…

Mapalo Mubanga’s mother Lisa noticed that there was something strange about her daughter’s feet, but she never sought medical attention because of fa…

In a dark, crowded room in a school for disabled children, I met 4-month-old Bwalya Mulenga. Her mother had brought her that day for clinic, a mobile cli…

Though Alion Lungu is nearly two years old, he is only just learning how to walk. It hasn’t come easy for him because he was born with bilateral clubfo…

Mary Ngambi is a bubbly nine-month-old little girl with clubfeet and a very optimistic mother. Seeing Mary could put a smile on anyone's face as she flai…

Just like most parents would be, Eness was surprised and sad after she saw the condition of her child. Tumelo, meaning “faith,” was born with bilater…

It’s not very often that we have children who are not African, come for treatment at CURE Malawi, in fact, I’ve never seen any. That doesn’t mean t…