This month’s non-profit is Sole Hope. We will be donating our monthly $250 to this organization. My sister tipped me off to this organization which not only helps save lives of shoeless children of Africa, but teaches women a trade and business skills necessary to start a sustainable career and income. More about Sole Hope:
Asher Collie visited Ndola, Zambia, in the Spring of 2010 as a member of a mission team. She saw firsthand the poor condition of orphans’ and widows' feet because most were shoeless. Because they had no shoes they suffered intense foot wounds which were often infected by tapeworms and other diseases, robbing their bodies of the little nutrition that they had. Asher felt a call to solve the effects of going shoeless.
Asher developed Sole Hope which does more than just put shoes on feet. Sole Hope teaches women in Africa the basic technical skill of shoemaking and then helps them to build a sustainable business plan which can support their families with income. The shoes made by these women are sold for donations ($25 for a pair of children’s shoes) and placed on the feet of kids in Africa. The money paid for the shoes goes to purchase natural African resources used as raw materials and to paychecks for the women who made them.
Learn more at www.solehope.com .
