Topista has a club foot...

We got two new children yesterday. In the morning a phone call from the Police, there was a little child found under a bush... Please can you come and help?? Together with Esther, I went to the Central Police station. The day before, on Sunday, a lady had found the little boy under a bush. She took the child home and cared for him. But her landlord told her that she should go to the Police. And the Police called us. They are a bit hesitated for children to be with people in their homes, so they wanted to place the child under the care of Amecet. The lady had called the child "Sunday", because she found him on a Sunday. I asked her if I could change it into Samuel, that was fine, she said, she will come and visit him in Amecet, she said. Samuel might be almost 1 year old, he was a bit scared yesterday, but today he is moving around and playing. The Police is going to trace for the relatives...

The second child is a girl of 9 months old, her mother died on Saturday and the father asked for help, we can help for some months, in that time he has the opportunity to look for a solution for the girl. Her name is Topista, a new name for me... She is a healthy baby, maybe a bit small, but she had a funny left foot. The father told us that she had been born with it and that they went for an operation, but he didn't know much more. 

We took her to the doctor and were advised to take her to the hospital, to the orthopedics. We did that this morning and it is a clup foot, the doctor didn't understand the operation she had before, but we are starting a programme with plaster around her left leg, which will bend the foot slowly into the normal position. I had to go and buy the plaster and the gloves, because there were none in the hospital. And they put the plaster around her left foot and leg. She cried and struggled and as you can see on the picture, she was exhausted when we came home..... We have to come back every week, they will renew the plaster, until the foot is in the right position. According to the doctor, we were a bit late, the younger the child is, the better.. In one way, Topista is lucky that she is in Amecet, otherwise there was probably not much done about her foot and she would be lame for life.....