If I was a shoe project.
It
came to my knowledge that many kids lack good pair of shoe to go to
school with. I decided to be taking pictures of different types of shoe
and came up with a project by title"I wish to be a shoe ". The
main idea about this project is to help kids in different primary
schools around Mathare slum, who have humble shoes in getting new pairs
of
shoes. With the little financial support and help from local people and
teachers from different schools I have been able to purchase new shoe
for few students. I am also in search for more donors so that the project
can cater for more kids.
A poem portraying your life as a shoe
If you were a shoe
Wonder what you will do would you go out? Or just lay about A life half of two If you were a shoe would you take care Protect the feet of others from the streets of Nairobi maybe in the slums of Mathare |
If you were a shoe
could you comfort your socks safely covering your feet showing off to friends you meet if they are polished and kept clean You're not a shoe, how does it feel? Watching, barefoot, blistered and bleeding kids wandering in-out and from the street to the slum People staring, flabbergasted little shoeless unheard of in fact, hoping to have one pair today |
They do not know their size
like day dreamers, they dream of wearing a pair randomly selecting pretty colors as they window shop with no pennies in their pocket Not knowing who and what is a shoe never had any pair in the past just wishing to have one in the future Sir, please understand me All I need is a chance for a shoe Please, offer me one! |
Photos of kids who have received shoes from the project
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