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Groundbreaking shoe grows and helps kids in developing countries

What if there was a shoe that could adjust and expand as your child’s feet grow?
Sometimes the most simple invention can be the most effective one and that is definitely the case with this invention. Kenton Lee, invented The Shoe That Grows, which are sandals that can adjust their size, allowing poor children to grow up without having to be without footwear.
According to Daily Mail, the shoe has a tough compressed rubber sole to protect the wearer's feet, with a soft leather upper. Poppers on the size allow the width to be adjusted as the child's feet expand while a strap on the toe can be moved to make the shoe longer.
Children all across the world including the ones in developing countries will benefit from this shoe. Lee infact aims to send the shoes to orphanages in Africa. In countires where children dont have access to footwear or outgrow the ones they have, they end up going barefoot thus getting exposed to soil-transmitted parasites and diseases.
The organisation has already distributed its first production run of 1,000 pairs of shoes in Kenya, Vietnam and Nicaragua. It is currently raising funds to produce 5,000 more, to be delivered in Kenya, Ghana, Haiti and Ecuador.
Here's what the shoe looks like:
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( Source : deccan chronicle )
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