The shoes invented by Kenton Lee that grow and can adjust its size as the foot grows.The shoes come with only two sizes, small and large.Each size can grow five sizes and last at least five years.
Kenton Lee was in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007.One day he saw a girl wearing shoes that were very small for her feet.Then he thinked about a shoe that could adjust and expand.He said, "there are over 300 million children who do not have shoes. And countless more with shoes that do not fit.Some children receive shoes donations but within a year their feet grow and they outgrow donated shoes."
The shoes are made with high quality materials such as compressed rubber, leather, buckles, a few buttons and snaps.No mechanical parts of gears to break and it is easy to use as well as easy to clean.The shoe can grow from the front which is adjustable toe, from the sides through snaps to expand shoe size and the back which has expandable heel strap.
The Shoe That Grows team said, "footwear for poor rural populations around the world is an extremely important resource to help ward off parasitic diseases transmitted from the soil and in environments with inadequate sanitation resources. In addition to infections from the soil, mere cuts and scrapes can also make the skin vulnerable to infections. "And being sick = struggling. Kids miss school, can't help their families, suffer with pain. Many of these diseases and parasites get into the body because people don't have shoes."
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