Team Serve Sole Hope

Uganda

About this Fundraiser

Hello Team Serve! For March's activity, we will be having a shoe cutting party to benefit a charity called Sole Hope on Wednesday March 25, 6:30-8:00 pm at the Farmington City Library. Sole Hope provides care to people in Uganda by removing painful jiggers from their feet and hands, and provides hygiene and prevention education. And are also given a new pair of shoes, hand made in Uganda. Sole Hope's suggested age is 5th grade and above.

More details coming soon, but wanted to let you know a couple of things now:

We want your denim! If you are doing any clearing out of old clothes, please bring your washed and clean denim to Jan or Feb Team Serve activities. We will be using those jeans to cut the specific shoe pieces with the patterns provided by Sole Hope.

A note from Sole Hope about the jeans: Recommended Denim: Adult sized, regular denim. Denim with stretch is not recommended for use, and some patterns may be difficult to trace onto small 'skinny' jeans.

If you have good fabric scissors, please bring those. We will not have enough scissors to supply for everyone.

The cost of each shoe is $10, which pays for operational costs associated with shipping, making transporting delivering the shoes. The cost of 10 shoes has been paid for. If anyone is interested in making a donation, this is where you can donate under Team Serve Sole Hope shoe cutting party. Any checks or cash must be collected before or after the party, but not allowed on-premises of the library property, per their rules regarding free use of their room. Donations are absolutely NOT required to come and participate.

Sole Hope does many great things, but here is just a brief video, and link to their website.

http://solehope.org/our-work/

Sole Hope employees about 25 full time Ugandan men and women to handcraft our shoes! We are currently making about 20,000 pairs of shoes per year. Closed toed shoes help prevent jigger infestation for people that wear them. They protect feet in harsh conditions, and a source of pride for people that own them.

Our shoes are handcrafted in Uganda, but they start their journey with you! You can use your hands and your old jeans bring new life to vulnerable people in Uganda.

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