Help children born with clubfoot get treatment by joining #StepItUp dance challenge
Here's how you can help raise R300,000 to provide treatment for 120 children born with clubfoot.
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Sara-Jayne Makwala King poke to Karen Mara Moss, founder and director of STEPS Clubfoot Care.
Listen to their conversation in the audio clip below.
2024 Paris Paralympian Mpumelelo (Mpumi) Mhlongo and Britain’s Got Talent finalist, dancer Musa Motha are calling on South Africans to join the #StepItUp dance challenge to raise R300,000 to provide treatment for 120 children born with clubfoot.
Mhlongo was born with amniotic band syndrome (ABS) and clubfoot, while Motha's left leg was amputated due to cancer when he was 10-years-old.
Clubfoot is a birth condition where the foot is turned inward and downward due to shortened tendons pulling the foot out of position.
Around 11,000 children are born with clubfoot annually in Southern Africa, while about 180,000 are born with the condition globally.
You can join the challenge on TikTok or an in-person event at Cape Town’s Blue Route Mall on 7 December.
This initiative is the brainchild of STEPS Clubfoot Care - a local non-profit organisation dedicated to enhancing the lives of children born with clubfoot, emphasising advocacy, patient-centered care, and the provision of clubfoot braces.
"STEPS is almost 20-years-old. We basically developed over the years, first of all, we worked with doctors to introduce a non-invasive far more effective method to treat clubfoot, called the ponseti method."
- Karen Mara Moss, founder and director of STEPS Clubfoot Care
"Clubfoot is a treatable condition. It doesn't have to result in disability which sadly can still happen because of limited resources or lack of information."
- Karen Mara Moss, founder and director of STEPS Clubfoot Care
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