Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children

 As the “Heeling Our World” project expands our “footprint” throughout Africa, thousand of women are being taught to make KLEM shoes. As part of the program to Train The Trainers, they are also asked to pass this skill on to other women in nearby villages, thereby greatly increasing the impact of our project

Mali

During the holidays, 5,000 children were brought to Bamako from throughout Mali. Many of these children were brought to our clinic to be examined. Our first group of 18 women and 3 men who completed the KLEM making course where presented with Certificates of Accomplishment. They will be producing shoes for the children who are examined at the Bamako, Mali clinic. A number of these women will also take their new skills back to their rural villages throughout Mali. They will establish cottage industries where they will produce shoes to be sold at local marketplaces. Selling KLEM shoes at local marketplaces generates enough income so that they can also produce and distribute free shoes to the village children. This model gives the women economic empowerment and a pathway out of poverty, while at the same time giving their children a chance for a healthier life.

Uganda

We are supplying and training women in the Butagaya Bwasa Women's Group, near Jinja.

DR Congo

We are just beginning our project in Mpasa, a very poor community on the outskirts of Kinshasa.