{"id":13565,"date":"2015-07-30T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=13565"},"modified":"2015-07-26T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T15:23:04","slug":"sole-hope-old-jeans-diy-to-save-kids-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/sole-hope-old-jeans-diy-to-save-kids-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Sole Hope: Old Jeans DIY to Save Kids\u2019 Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Julie Finn<\/strong><\/p>\n

I definitely love a good old jeans DIY, especially one that helps other people! In this post from Crafting a Green World<\/a>, Julie Finn talks about how you can help Ugandan children by using your old jeans in one of the most fun, altruistic craft projects ever!<\/em><\/p>\n

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I know that we love to turn our old jeans<\/a> into quilts <\/a>and skirts and potholders and tote bags, but the organization Sole Hope<\/a> has an even better use for them:\u00a0They save kids\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

This was\u00a0news to me, but in Uganda, where kids walk barefoot, there apparently also lives a horrible parasite, the jigger<\/a>. This parasite lays eggs in kids\u2019 feet, giving the bottoms of their feet open sores and putting them at risk\u00a0for\u00a0all kinds of infections and debilitations. These kids can\u2019t walk without pain. They certainly can\u2019t run and play. They certainly can\u2019t go to school or help out their families.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t sound like a fun way to spend one\u2019s childhood.<\/p>\n

Sole Hope, however, heals these kids, and they use old jeans to do it.<\/p>\n

What you do is buy a shoe-cutting party kit<\/a> from the organization, then you invite all your friends and instruct them to bring ALL their old jeans. Use the patterns in the kit to cut out a bunch of shoes, mail them back, and the shoemaking team<\/a> (scroll down to find them) will complete the process of making children\u2019s shoes from your jeans.<\/p>\n

Sole Hope removes the jiggers from the kids\u2019 feet, educates them about prevention, and gives them a pair of these shoes to wear to keep their feet safe from now on. You can continue to make shoes for the organization, or send back the patterns to be re-used for other shoe-cutting parties.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of things that I really like about Sole Hope:<\/p>\n