Our 18 year old wonder – Tumiso Moloi
In 2005, Brenda Moloi emailed Karen Mara Moss with a query about her 4-month-old baby, who was born with clubfoot. With that email, Tumiso became one of the first babies in South Africa to receive the Ponseti treatment for clubfoot. STEPS was but a baby then too. Now, we are both celebrating our 18th birthday […]
Clubfoot Mom pays it forward to South African Babies
We had to write a post about a very inspiring supporter of STEPS, Monika Jarczewska. She is the mother of a boy with right clubfoot and also the President of the Ignacio Ponseti Foundation in Poland. Monika is also a plaster cast technician in the Ponseti method and an orthopaedic technician (during the professional diploma). She decided to go […]
Bulumko turns 5! A happy update on his clubfoot story
Bulumko Magwegwe’s 5th birthday was on the 2nd of December. He recently celebrated another big milestone, his successful graduation from clubfoot treatment! We celebrated with Bulumko and his mother Nobaxolisi and presented him with a STEPS treatment graduation certificate at the Tygerberg Hospital clinic where he was successfully treated. We first shared Bulumko’s story in […]
Rulan’s story: “I’m so happy with my child’s foot – It’s progressing and developing so well.”
Rulan Chauke was born with clubfoot in 2021. His mother, Alice, brought him to our partner clinic at Tygerberg. Having not known what clubfoot was before Rulan was born and never having been to a clubfoot clinic, she didn’t know what to expect about their journey ahead. She shared their experience with us and some […]
Zainab’s story – ‘She loves dancing with her sisters’
Zainab Dawood will be six years old in September, and she was born with clubfoot. She was treated soon after birth at Maitland Cottage Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital in Cape Town. Zainab’s mother Samia says: “I remember going for my 20 week pregnancy scan and finding out that my baby had clubfoot. I knew nothing about […]
Herman’s clubfoot success story – ‘We are completely positive about his future’
Herman Nagel will be six years old in October 2022. He lives in Vanderbijlpark,Gauteng with his mom and dad, Hannelie and Nico, and brother Nicholas. He was born with bilateral clubfoot. Hannelie says, ”We only found out he had clubfoot the day he was born. We were shocked, you don’t expect something like that because […]
Gracelynne’s clubfoot success story – ‘She wants to be a doctor when she grows up.’
Ivy Muffler, Steps clinic coordinator at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, says, “Gracelynne is one of the first babies I met when I started working for Steps as a clinic coordinator and parent adviser. She was just seven days old. She’s adorable.” Mom Bianca Sammering shares, “Gracelynn is now seven years old and she is […]
Adi’s clubfoot journey – “All will be good, I promise you”
Adivhaho Netshiombo (Adi) was born with bilateral clubfoot and started Ponseti casting at 6 days old. His mother Fatu says, “I was very shocked when I saw my son had these feet. I saw immediately after he was born. I’d never seen anything like that in my life. And I was already in my forties […]
