Sole Hope

last week i had the priveledge of spending a whole day serving with a really neat ministry here in Jinja. 

Sole Hope is a non-profit organization thats main focus is removing jiggers, dirt and infections from the feet of children. 

for those of you who don't know - jiggers are tiny bugs that insert themselves under skin, and don't stop until they've eaten through the flesh. 

the team (made up of Dru and Asher, founders and directors of Sole Hope, and many volunteers from other ministries) set up in a school yard located in an outer village. we set out wash bins, stools and about twelve bings FULL of brand new, close-toed shoes. 

i wasnt prepared for how many jiggers we saw in these children's feet.

the team used clothes pins to dig out the jiggers and then the kids' feet were washed and dried. 

i think i fitted and put shoes on one-hundred-something pairs of feet!!! 

there was something humbling and beautiful about serving with Sole Hope today. you just don't think about things like this- something so simple as clean, healthy feet and new shoes. 

you should have seen these kids' faces today (see photo below).....they were SO over joyed to have jigger-free feet, now in shoes that will protect them!