Thanks for your replies.
The shoes are to solve the lack of shoes in poor nations, especially African nations as the world’s 20 poorest countries are in Africa according to my research.
About putting people out of business, well, this project will take the best possible care of all the stakeholders, but it might be more important to assure that a schoolgoing population has shoes, than to make sure someone earns a living extorting the caregivers of those same children.
Our project is likely to be parnering with www.shoesforhumanity.org (we’re still in talks) but they have sent me already this email from someone asking for shoes. It’s this type of situation that we want to solve all over the planet. And we seem to have an innovative formula, so to speak. But to put it in the calculations, we need a rough estimate of the cost of this type of shoe. Most obviously, as much as we can help local economies, we want to do so.
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—- On Tue, 10/26/10, Tejan S < @yahoo>.com wrote:
From: Tejan S < @yahoo>.com
Subject: I need help for my people.
To: info@shoesforhumanity.org
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 1:33 PM
My name is Tejan S and I live in Richmond,VA in the US. I recently saw one of your
representatives on a news tv cannes , talking about your organisation. I actually thought of
my childhood, growing up and going to school in a remote town called Rokupr, in the kambia district of the republic of Sierra Leone. I never had shoes and I felt a lot of pain walking for a mile or more to scool under the hot burning sun with bad roads. Only a very few kids had shoes and majority of us walked barefooted. I had saws on my feet from time to time,hitting my feet on rocks accidentally, People are poor, families are large and the parents cannot afford to provide the basic neccessities for their kids.
There was a civil war that lasted for approximately 12 years and the people are just recovering for the devastation caused by the war. It is very difficult for families especially the children. I am now a US citizen and I am helping my family with the little I make but that is just little help and many people need help.
I am hereby asking your organisation to help my people with some shoes, especially
the school going population of town and the surrounding villages.My people and I will apprciate very much if this will meet your king and genorous approval. I am planning ro
visit the town of Rokup in late january 2011 to february 2011. I would be pleased to be part
of the distribution team but if you want to send the schoes before thid time I will contact some people in the town inorder to help you distrbute the shoes. My father and brothers are living in that town and many people that I know.I haven’t been to Rokupr for a very long
time but I have always been in contact with my family and other relatives.
My cell phone number is:___________ and l would be very pleased to answer any questions regarding the request for help for my native land people.
My regards to you and may God bless you.
Sincerely yours
Tejan S