We spent the majority of the next work week sorting and organizing a HUGE amount of shoe uppers. Uppers are the cloth and denim parts of the shoes that are made by shoe-cutting party participants and then sent to Holly at the SH office in NC (woot woot!) and then finally to Uganda. An enormous shipment of cardboard boxes and rubber bins was sent from the US a few months ago and some of them were used very quickly while others were stored on another property near the Sole Hope compound.The entire SH team helped empty the truck of boxes and bins into the cabana at the guesthouse and there were so many that they filled the entire cabana!
Our task as interns was to open each box, separate the ziploc bags of uppers into their respective sizes and organize them into bins to be stored in the shoemakers' workspace. Much easier said than done! After lots of heavy-lifting, several pokes by rogue safety pins, help from friends (shout out to Dorothy, Kendall, Amber and Melissa) and over 20 hours, we finally finished today! Although it was pretty laborious work, it was so amazing to see this huge pile of boxes and know that each one represents a cutting party, or even multiple, into which people halfway across the world have poured their time and hearts. As my mom- who held her first shoe-cutting party a couple of weeks ago with my youth group- will tell you, organizing and carrying out a cutting party is no simple task. It takes a lot of time, focus and preparation. I am so humbled by the way SH supporters have rallied around our organization's cause giving up their time and resources to show Christ's love to people they've never met. By participating in a cutting party, you are demonstrating that all lives matter and that you are willing to sacrifice in order to give others the opportunity to live healthier lives. The world aches for people willing to do just this so knowing that they're out there brings a smile to my face :)
Our task as interns was to open each box, separate the ziploc bags of uppers into their respective sizes and organize them into bins to be stored in the shoemakers' workspace. Much easier said than done! After lots of heavy-lifting, several pokes by rogue safety pins, help from friends (shout out to Dorothy, Kendall, Amber and Melissa) and over 20 hours, we finally finished today! Although it was pretty laborious work, it was so amazing to see this huge pile of boxes and know that each one represents a cutting party, or even multiple, into which people halfway across the world have poured their time and hearts. As my mom- who held her first shoe-cutting party a couple of weeks ago with my youth group- will tell you, organizing and carrying out a cutting party is no simple task. It takes a lot of time, focus and preparation. I am so humbled by the way SH supporters have rallied around our organization's cause giving up their time and resources to show Christ's love to people they've never met. By participating in a cutting party, you are demonstrating that all lives matter and that you are willing to sacrifice in order to give others the opportunity to live healthier lives. The world aches for people willing to do just this so knowing that they're out there brings a smile to my face :)
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