Disability Article - Clubfoot in Senegal.

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No one should have to live their life with a disability if a surefire treatment is available. There's a freedom in being able-bodied.

BBC article: Changing the lives of Senegalese people disabled by clubfoot.

Comments

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This is a very good but also very sad article. Club foot is so easily remedied, but that social stigma prevents parents from helping their own kids! My dad was born with a cleft palate, which is rare. He had to be fed upside down. I don't even know when he ultimately had surgery, but he was lucky in that he was born in the States, even if it was a small, remote town. His parents still found the help needed to allow him to grow up and experience life normally

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=Reading about the adult woman living with her condition after a bad operation was just heartbreaking. There's no god reason she should experience that pain. "It's God's will" is a bullshit excuse.=

Well, yeah! If someone really wants to believe that, then isn't it also God's will that they've got a treatment for the condition?

=She's facing similar problems working on a Native reservation now, too. It's frustrating and sad.=

I can't imagine. :-(