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Kitezi landfill, Kampala, Uganda -
Team Uganda: Erinah Shannahn, Fahad with CEO Amy Hanson -
Adults make 80p a day -
CEO Amy Hanson with SSP Project Uganda coordinator Erinah Shannahn -
The rule on the dump is that adults must wear boots, they cost 2 days wages so it is hard for them to afford shoes for their children too -
Erinah Shannahn with the landfill chairman doing a site survey -
No children are allowed on the dump. It is 70% women and thus father has brought his baby up to feed -
The children wait for their parents in the surrounding slums, many dressed in rags, few with shoes -
Small Steps Project fit the children with shoes -
Shoe fitting, many of the children have injured and infected feet -
The children of the wastepickers do not have shoes -
Until now Small Steps Project gave them The Shoe That Grows -
The children strike a pose in their The Shoe That Grows -
Very happy to have The Shoe That Grows -
More children more fittings -
Fittings now that will grow as their feet do -
We had a lot of children to fit with shoes -
No one seemed to have any -
But the ones that we gave shoes to thanked us with the biggest smiles we have ever seen -
Batman -
We visited slum after slum -
Finding all the children of waste pickers -
And providing them with The Shoe That Grows -
Parents came down to help after their shifts, all changing into their sunday best to help -
This mum has two sets of twins who all needed shoes -
The twins and their best buds without shoes -
The twins with their new The Shoe That Grows -
This little girl radiated sunbeams when she got her new shoes on -
More shoes for everyone -
Our incredible team Uganda with the children of one small slum -
As it started to get dark, we found some more children waiting for their shoes -
So polite and patient -
This little girl wouldn't take hers till her big sis returned form school to get some too -
Then she got hers -
But only because her sister got some too
On Kitezi Landfill in Kampala, Uganda there are 2 rules: no children are allowed and adults must be registered and wear protective boots and gloves. They earn $2 a day and boots cost $4. They can hardly afford their boots never mind shoes for their children, who live in the surrounding slums. We provided their children with The Shoe That Grows and next we will be providing all 700 adults with new boots and protective gloves. We have been humbled by the waste-pickers on this dump. They work in terrible conditions but they are organised, calm and care about each other, there is no violence or arguments just hard work. They do what we hope for on all dumps- they leave their children off the landfill, we are supporting the whole family so they can continue to do so.
