Help Save Lives in Uganda

    An organization that needs more attention is Sole Hope. Sole hope is a nonprofit organization that creates shoes out of old jeans for people living in Uganda. The people in Uganda suffer from a parasite called jiggers. Jiggers are very painful. People can’t walk, they get very infected, and people die from having these jiggers. Sole hope creates shoes so that the people in Uganda don’t walk around barefoot and get these jiggers. The steps to action are very easy, simple, and inexpensive. You trace shapes onto old pairs of jeans, trace four of one shape, and trace 2 of the other shape on the jeans and trace 2 of the last shape on a plastic folder, then cut the shapes out, and then paper clip them together. Those 8 cutouts create one pair of shoes. You then send them to the company who creates the shoes and gives them to the people of Uganda. 

    Awareness needs to be brought about this problem. People to not think of not having shoes as a problem. Where a lot of people live, they do not have to worry about things like parasites invading our feet. A good idea for a flyer to help get the message across effectively would be to emphasize how simple, easy, and inexpensive it is to help people. Using a picture of a child who is super happy with the shoes they received from sole hope would appeal to people‘s emotions to show how appreciative the people in Uganda are for our help. A transparent horizontal line of footprints Will be put behind the visual steps on how to create the shoes. 

    A lot of people don’t think of using old jeans in an effective way. People either throw their jeans out or give them to a thrift store. People have no idea that their old genes can make a persons life so much better in Uganda. Not only will the jeans make the people in Uganda happy, but will also save some of their lives.