A Quickened Pace

Sole Hope has been growing at a quickened pace.  It is a good issue to have.  Every day we are making decisions that will impact our future and the futures of thousands of others-and we make every decision with that in mind.  It has been a while since I posted, I thought I would give a quick update on what the Sole Hope team has been up to.  

• Scullytown is designing a new, and completely killer website for Sole Hope.  So long to our homemade one...you will be able to see details on each of our programs, learn all about Sole Hope and how we got started, get to know the Sole Hope team, learn about the man or woman that made your shoes and SO much more.  Oh, and you can view it on your iPhone, just in case you're sitting chatting about Sole Hope to your friends while you're out and about and want to show them what we are all about! (There will be tons more wonderful things about our website...you'll just have to wait and see)
• Speaking of shoes, we are working on getting shoes made here in the U.S. to be sold in the U.S. one for one.  So, for every pair you buy, we donate a pair to a child in need.  This has been a long time coming and something we get multiple requests for every month.  Soon, very soon.
• An adult Sole Hope shoe is on its way.  We are working hard to create the perfect shoe for you, your friends, your neighbors and your neighbors neighbors.  It is going to be splendid-and we can't wait to show you what it looks like!
• We are working to launch our African headquarters in Uganda.  This is a huge step in being able to better serve our programs in Africa while they get their feet off the ground and start their self sustaining businesses.
• We are working hard to get the word out about how extremely important it is that children have shoes to wear.  By doing this we hope to create awareness that evokes a response.  We want to partner with businesses, individuals and others that want to buy shoes for the villages in Uganda and Zambia in bulk.  This will create jobs in their local economy (shoe making) and will put shoes on children.  No child deserves to walk around with jigger infested feet-yet it happens every day!

(Jigger infestation from the village we were just in, in Uganda)

If you are interested in sponsoring some feet, or know someone who runs a business and might want to-please tell them about us or click the donate tab on the right side of this blog and in your notes tell us how many shoes you are donating.

Sponsoring Feet Through A Pair of Sole Hope Shoes

225 pairs and up—$5/pair

125-200 pairs—$7/pair

25-100 pairs—$10/pair

25 pairs—$15/pair 

There is so much more I will share about later.  There is change coming to village upon village and city upon city because of the efforts of so many in America.  Your donations are changing lives and the time and effort spent spreading the word about Sole Hope is deeply appreciated.

-Asher Collie