By Mitch Lewis | Executive Director
It is with mixed emotions that I am submitting the final Project Report for “Making Shoes For Barefoot Children in Mozambique.” Through your love and support we have developed a program that will potentially improve the lives of many of Mozambique’s barefoot children and bring a new skillset and economic empowerment to disadvantaged youth in Maputo. However, this project was never intended to be confined to a single nation in Africa, since there are 300 million barefoot children around the world. Mozambique was an important first step in developing a successful model. Now it’s time to replicate that model in other nations that have asked for our help. We are very grateful to Rita da Silva for her role in getting the project off the drawing board and into the villages. She has put a structure in place so that the operation can become self sufficient, allowing us to devote resources elsewhere.
At this time we are beginning operations in Uganda and in Sierra Leone. We hope to create GlobalGiving projects for both of these programs and hope you will continue your support of the Heeling Our World program. We will contact you with details when we introduce them on the GlobalGiving platform.
Once again, thanks to all of you for your compassion for the world’s barefoot children and your understanding of the responsibilities we all share as global citizens.
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