MiracleFeet India

MiracleFeet Foundation for Eliminating Clubfoot (Miraclefeet India) is a registered non-profit organisation (NGO), working to address the problem of untreated clubfoot in India. Clubfoot is a congenital birth defect wherein one or both the feet are turned inwards, making it a leading cause of disability in children. An estimated 175,000 children are born with clubfoot each year, 33,000 of which are born in India. A survey estimated that only 13% of children born with clubfoot in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are currently accessing treatment. Untreated clubfoot can be extremely painful and such patients are at a higher risk of discrimination, physical and sexual abuse, neglect, illiteracy and inequality.

Clubfoot can very easily be treated using the Ponseti method, which is considered an effective, inexpensive, minimally invasive and the gold-standard treatment for clubfoot that is well suited to low resource environments.

Miraclefeet India is working to ensure that no child grows up disabled as a result of being born with clubfoot. We provide organizational, technical, and financial support to clinics to increase access to treatment for children born with clubfoot. Our objective is to increase coverage of clubfoot treatment from less than 15% to over 70% in India.

We operate and administer our own clubfoot programs in partnership with the Government, along with select charitable/trust hospitals. MiracleFeet India operates weekly clubfoot clinic day(s) in select hospitals so that parents of children with clubfoot have access at a reasonable distance and time. We make investments in the areas of medical training in Ponseti method, human resources in the form of program executives & managers to help with implementation of our program, technology, carrying out outreach activities, dropout prevention and monitoring and evaluation. We also provide low cost foot abduction braces which have been designed along with Stanford d. Schools Extreme Affordability course.

Miraclefeet India has presence in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Globally, Miraclefeet is present in over 28 countries and has enrolled 48,000 children across their clinics.