Mausam
1-year-old Mausam may never remember he had bilateral clubfoot, but his family won’t forget the love and specialist care he received...
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“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news.” – Isaiah 52:7
What a sweet wee boy Mausam is – caught in a moment of sheer delight by the toys around him at the cbm-funded disability hospital in Nepal.
His parents are overwhelmed with gratitude. Mum Tulasa and Dad Khagendra simply cannot believe that their adored son has received such extraordinary care for his bilateral clubfoot – all because of wonderfully generous people like you!
If his care can continue, Mausam may never remember having severely turned-in ankles and toes – but his parents will never forget what generous people like you have done for their precious son.
Mausam needs to keep wearing his special ankle-shaping shoes until he is five, and this is also true of many other children like him being born with disabilities, deep in the mountain valleys of Nepal.
For these children and more, please keep bringing good news to their parents, by sending one of your life-changing gifts today. It will mean the world to a family like Mausam’s.
His parents said, “We felt terrible” when they thought about what their little boy’s life would be like with untreated bilateral clubfoot.
As he grew, walking to school would be painful, or even impossible. He would be teased by other children and left out of their games and friendships.
Learning to walk on the sides, or even the tops, of his feet would fill Mausam’s childhood with unending hardship, calluses and infections. Quite possibly he would become an adult who crawls, because walking would hurt too much.
He would become completely dependent on his family, worsening their own poverty. He would probably feel like a burden, but he would have no choice. What sort of work could he do, if he had been unable to go to school to receive an education? He would likely face a lifetime of pain and poverty, with limited access to healthcare – and the certain loss of his dignity.
That sad fate is what his parents saw curled up in their baby’s twisted toes and turned-in little ankles – and that is why your support for disability care in Nepal is so important.
Please prayerfully consider sending your gift today to straighten and strengthen feet like Mausam’s.
After the family’s deep sadness came immense thankfulness. Tulasa and Khagendra had no idea that such world-class care for clubfoot was available in Nepal – let alone that it would come at no cost to them, thanks to the kindness of generous people like you living in a country far away.
They still find it hard to believe. Strangers, in another land, cared so much about their precious son that they made this treatment possible.
They are so grateful. They will never forget the support they have been given.
HRDC – the Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children – is one of the world’s great centres for clubfoot treatment. It is funded by kind people like you, through cbm.
In recent years HRDC has been expanding from Nepal’s capital, right across the country: first with mobile clinics, which still travel far into the steep Himalayan valleys. Now though, there are also branches of HRDC in cities like Nepalgunj, near where Mausam’s family lives.
What a blessing it was for his parents to discover that a specialist hospital was within reach – and because of the support of generous people like you, the care would be entirely free!
When a child is born with clubfoot, a clock starts ticking over them. They must start to receive treatment from their first weeks of life, or it will be difficult to reverse their condition.
Mausam was in urgent need. At just six weeks old, his “Ponseti” treatment began at HRDC.
The Ponseti method is a non-surgical technique using manipulations and plaster casts, to straighten Mausam’s feet week by week. It is gentle, but it hurts. Mausam’s parents remember his tears at night in those first weeks.
When started this early, Ponseti can be incredibly effective, but in Mausam’s case his clubfeet were so severe, the technique was not enough. He also needed surgery. His parents despaired. “What if he is not treated?” asked his worried mother.
But once again, the help was already there – because of kind people like you. Friends Tulasa and Khagendra have never met, but who are full of compassion and care for their precious son, helping to pay for the delicate and expert treatments to their little boy’s feet.
They were further blessed: before Mausam could walk, he was given braces with long rods to help his feet align with his legs. He has made such good progress that now, having learned to walk, he has been given special shoes to reshape his feet during the day, while his braces continue to work while he sleeps.
By the age of five, all sign of clubfoot should be gone, as he walks towards his very best future on strong, straight feet.
The cost of all this care would be beyond most families in Nepal, let alone a family struggling to feed their children.
“I am hugely grateful,” says Khagendra. Tulasa agrees: “I want to thank the supporters such a lot!”
We really can’t stop now while children are still being born with disabilities in the mountains of Nepal. Please keep bringing good news to these families, by sending your generous gift for their children today, which will help cbm-funded field workers find children through outreaches and mobile clinics. It will also help provide life-changing orthopaedic devices, like specialised shoes, crutches, leg braces and walking frames, and it will help pay for vital surgery, Ponseti care and rehabilitation, to give children life-long freedom and movement.
It is so close to the heart of God to help people with disabilities. We see it so much in the Bible. By showing your love for Mausam, this wee boy with bilateral clubfoot, you truly know what it means to bring God’s hope and healing. Thank you for sending your gift today, to bring good news to a family facing a mountain of disability in their life of poverty.
Mausam’s wonderful progress is everything we have been working towards to break the cycle of poverty and disability: treating a child with expert care early in life so they no longer have to experience their disability! This is life-changing ministry. Please keep supporting this incredible legacy of disability care in Nepal, by sending your gift today.
