Programme
Haiti Clubfoot Programme
Main objective
- Eliminate long-term disability as a result of clubfoot, and to create a formal countrywide programme for the treatment of children born with clubfoot
Name of the partner
Our work today
Support for the re-establishment of clubfoot clinics in six target communities throughout Haiti.
Current activities
Current activities
- Establishment of six clubfoot treatment programmes within strategically located health care centres
- Treatment and prevention of clubfoot through Ponseti methods
- Training of technicians and surgeons as well as families and communities in clubfoot treatment protocols
- Community awareness to identify appropriate clubfoot cases
About the partner
Cure Clubfoot Haiti’s ultimate goal is to provide treatment of clubfoot in order to prevent disability and eradicate clubfoot as a disability for the estimated 600 children born each year in Haiti with clubfoot.
CCH’s strategy is to create a formal countrywide programme that will train, equip and manage a network of clinics that provide clubfoot treatment at little or no cost to the patients.
The situation for people with disability aggravated significantly in the aftermath of the earthquake, especially for children. Healing of clubfeet at an early age enables children to live a normal life. This has a tremendous impact on their quality of life, especially in the still destroyed cities which present old and earthquake related barriers everywhere.
CCH’s strategy is to create a formal countrywide programme that will train, equip and manage a network of clinics that provide clubfoot treatment at little or no cost to the patients.
The situation for people with disability aggravated significantly in the aftermath of the earthquake, especially for children. Healing of clubfeet at an early age enables children to live a normal life. This has a tremendous impact on their quality of life, especially in the still destroyed cities which present old and earthquake related barriers everywhere.
