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Fifteen-year-old Jingle Luis could barely look as the doctors at the Bronx hospital in New York begin the arduous task of taking off the casts from her feet. But when she felt her feet being freed from the tight restriction binding it, she peeked. Born with feet so clubbed they twist backward and upside down, Jingle had to use crutches her whole life to hobble on what should be the tops of her feet. Jingle’s journey from her hometown in Apayao in northern Luzon to New York began when Dr. Randall Owen, a head and neck surgeon, traveled to the Philippines on a mission trip in 2003.

After the successful US operation, Jingle said she dreams of becoming a doctor or nurse someday. Now that her feet are set firmly on the ground, Jingle says she could begin to make the first steps to the future.

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