Hope Notes 2025, issue 3
20 years of hope This year, 2025, marks two decades of hope and healing. It’s not just a milestone for Hope Walks, but for more than 175,000 children and adults born with clubfoot who are now walking free of disability. Our journey began in 2005 as a program within CURE International. The need for clubfoot care was tremendous. The program grew, and in 2018, Hope Walks was established and became an independent organization in 2019 to reach all children born with this correctable condition. Thanks to your incredible partnership, we’ve transformed lives with physical healing and spiritual change as we’ve shared the love of Christ. But this milestone isn’t a finish line— it’s a starting line. It inspires us to move forward with urgency to reach the thousands of children still waiting for treatment. Our goal for the next five years is to train more medical professionals, treat more children and transform more lives (like the ones you’ll see on the center spread). Thank you for being the foundation of this journey. You are the reason for every step, every story and every life transformed over the last 20 years.
Scott Reichenbach President and Co-Founder
A shipping container full of hope New clinic headed to Kenya Shipping containers are usually known for hauling goods across oceans —but one very special container now sailing toward Kenya is carrying something far more valuable: hope for children born with clubfoot. What began as an ordinary steel box has been transformed into a fully equipped clinic space dedicated to clubfoot treatment. This unique project comes from Texas A&M University’s BUILD initiative, a student-led effort that converts decommissioned shipping containers into state-of-the-art medical clinics serving communities around the world. In late September, the Hope Walks container was completed and loaded onto a cargo ship bound for the Kenyan coast. Over the next 45 days, it will travel from Texas through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, before reaching Kilifi, a coastal city where Clubfoot Care for Kenya (CCK)— Hope Walks’ local partner—will put it to use. Once installed, the container clinic will provide a dedicated, modern space where trained clinicians can offer free, lifechanging treatment to children with clubfoot. On non-clinic days, the hospital will also use the space for other essential health services, ensuring that every square foot continues to Continued on back page