Real sole: recycling project providing shoes for India's children.

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Two Mumbai athletes are converting old footwear into flip-flops for unshod schoolchildren.

Green Sole has provided more than 150,000 pairs of flip-flops and slippers. Photograph: handout
▼ In the vast Indian interior, it is not unusual to see shoeless infants – whether walking barefoot to school or hopping around on makeshift sports pitches. Injuries are common and lead to infections such as hookworm and elephantiasis.
More than 250 million Indians live below the poverty line and footwear is usually a luxury. Tens of millions of children have no shoes. (By contrast, roughly  300m pairs of shoes are  discarded in the USevery year).
Now, two young athletes in Mumbai have come together to convert old shoes into new footwear for unshod schoolchildren in small villages.
Green Sole has teamed up with schools and colleges to distribute remade footwear across states such as Odisha, Assam, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh. So far they have provided more than 150,000 pairs of flip-flops and slippers.
“We have also started retailing our recycled footwear through stores and online portals,” said one of the founders, Shriyans Bhandari. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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soothsayer

Must congratulate the effort. All school kids in villages need footwear perhaps much more than those in cities.

asr335704

A really noble initiative. More and more people should contribute to this noble cause.

Salute to these athletes for helping the school children with one of the most basic necessity.

Jbnast

What a great initiative. If only they could tap into the supply of discarded shoes from larger countries they could help so many more.