50 Years of Changing What’s Possible
For 50 years, Operation Footprint has helped children move toward greater mobility, independence and opportunity through specialized orthopedic care, physician education and lasting partnerships.
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Our Mission
For over 40 years, 3,000 major surgical reconstructions and 30,000 patient visits, the Operation Footprint doctors have been carrying out this mission.
- To provide free surgical care to indigent children with a variety of inherited (genetic) and acquired conditions of the foot and ankle, such as clubfoot, lingering polio deformities, severe flatfoot and cerebral palsy, etc.
- To train local surgeons to be able to manage and treat these conditions.
- Through these life-changing surgeries, to enable these patients to become productive members of the society, free from the stigma and limitations of their deformity
- To inspire others who we have trained to continue our work and expand our vision.
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El Salvador 2026
Update… The July 2026 surgical brigade in El Salvador was again conducted at the Benjamin Bloom Hospital for Childr
31 July, 2026
Honduras 2025
Update… Operation Footprint’s January 2025 brigade in Honduras, at which more than 15 surgeons from around the US,
28 January, 2025
India 2023
Update… Operation Footprint conducted its most recent surgical brigade in Agra on September 26-30, 2023. Before th
23 September, 2023
CFAR Lecture Series
In November 2021, Operation Footprint launched an online lecture series, Complex Foot and Ankle Reconstruction (CFAR), to share
04 June, 2022
