April 2011
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miraclefeet spreads hope in India!
miraclefeet is launching a program with Cure Clubfoot Worldwide (CCW) and the Government of Maharashtra State to support five new clubfoot clinics in and around Mumbai, India.
As part of a visit to kick off the Ponseti training for these clinics, Bridget Ryan Berman, co-founder and board member of miraclefeet and Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld, managing Director of miraclefeet, spent the first...
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News from Belo Horizonte - Brazil
miraclefeet just received the signed final partnership agreement from Hospital da Baleia in Brazil, which now brings our total number of clinics in Brazil to two. Hospital da Baleia is a charitable hospital that assists underserved populations in Belo Horizonte – the largest city in the state of Minas Gerias.
This clinic is now the largest clubfoot clinic in Brazil with...
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There are no coincidences!
On our recent trip to Nicaragua, we ran into some doctors at the same clinic on a medical mission with Cooperación Ortopédica Americano Nicargüense (COAN), a nonprofit group based out of….wait for it…Raleigh, NC! As you know, this is literally right down the road from miraclefeet headquarters in Chapel Hill. COAN works to optimize the healthcare and well-being of people...
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9-year-old in Nicaragua highlights need for...
Our last patient on this trip to Nicaragua was a nine-year-old boy, accompanied by his father, who traveled three hours by horse and two hours by bus to reach the clinic. He limped into the office with severe clubfoot on one foot and had NEVER received any kind of treatment in his life.
After examination, Dr. Mario Sequeira explained to both the boy and his father that he would take care...
