Even after the main buildings are completed with the supporting infrastructure, there are still more essentials to maintain the effort. Following are the major items needed to help make our new home a home!

• Secure Storage - we, as you can imagine, have lots of things that need to be stored around Sole Hope!  Everything from medical supplies, shoes, and clothing - all of these things need a safe place to be stored!
  

• Roads/Paths - This is a rather large compound!  We need to create a driveway into the compound for our Sole Hope vehicles as well as paths from one building to another all around the compound. 
  

• Electricity - This is a privilege in Uganda, but because we are serving people with medical needs that need attention around the clock, electricity is definitely a perk!
  

• Soccer Field - Ugandans love soccer, and those at Sole Hope are no exception!  Our staff loves to bond over a lively game of soccer on Friday afternoons, and once our patients have healed enough it's a beautiful thing to watch them run around and play with us as well!
  

• Playground - we serve children, and who loves playgrounds more than kids?  This playground would serve as a wonderful way for the children who are receiving care to pass their time as well as a fun thing for those kids staying at our Guest House to play on!  Kids playing together don't need a common language!

• Vegetable Garden - Sole Hope is also committed to becoming a self sustaining farming village, growing our own fruit and vegetables. We are teaming up with a program for conservation agriculture called “Farming God’s Way”, which is a simple method of growing your own food and giving back to nature what was taken out. It is built on four key principles : On time, with standard, without waste, with JOY.  We are excited to see this program take shape and grow as create our vegetable garden!
  

Here’s how you can help Build Hope:

1) Buy a brick for $25.  Or two.  Or 6. Or a Bundle for $250.  This is a huge undertaking, but we can do it together--brick by brick.   

2) Tell your friends.  Tweet, post, email, shout really loud . . . we need everyone to share our affiliate link.  We need to sell 20,000 of these to get the job done.   

3) Shop.  No, really.  The catch is that you have to do it through the Pure Charity website's online partners (like GAP, Target, J. Crew & Apple).  They will donate a percentage to your Online Giving Fund which then you pass on to this project.   

ABOUT SOLE HOPE

Sole Hope (established 2010) is a non-profit organization with a focused effort in Uganda to battle the problem of jiggers. Jiggers are small sand fleas that burrow into the bare feet of thousands of Ugandan children who often live their lives without adequate footwear and a misconception about the cause of jiggers. The result is infection, gangrene, paralysis, and occasionally amputation and even death. 

Sole Hope’s mission is “Offering HOPE, healthier lives, and freedom from foot-related diseases through education, jobs, and medical relief.“

Asher (the founder) and Dru Collie (executive director) and their six children have been living in Jinja, Uganda serving local children along with their volunteers and team of workers for more than 2 years now.  Sole Hope provides:

1) Closed-toe shoes to children in Uganda to protect their feet from jiggers

2) Education of preventions and treatments for children and their care givers

3) Medical care – removing jiggers from children's feet, treating the wounds, testing for HIV, Typhoid, Malaria, and other diseases

4) Jobs to men and women in Uganda – teaching the trade of shoe-making and providing employments in the local communities