Organizations Filed Purposes:
Offering hope, healthier lives, and freedom from foot related diseases through education, jobs, and medical relief.
Our 2019 activities in Uganda: Tunga penetrans, known as jiggers, are small sand fleas that burrow into the bare feet of thousands of Ugandan children who often live their lives without adequate footwear. Along with a misconception about the cause of jiggers, the results include infection, gangrene, loss of mobility, and occasionally amputation and even death. Sole Hope is combating the jigger problem in Uganda in six major areas. (1) School and Community clinics: Every week Sole Hope transports a team of medical professionals, social workers, educators, and volunteers to a clinic site where approximately 150 patients have their feet washed, inspected, and jiggers treated. Each patient also receives one-on-one education and goes home with a pair of Sole Hope shoes. Number of children seen at clinics - 4,191 Number of clinics held - 64 Number of jiggers treated - 14,079
(2) Focus clinics: Smaller medical teams of staff go into the community and focus on families or communities that might not be large enough to justify a major clinic or severe enough to come to Outreach, but still need our services. Patients are treated for their jiggers, educated, and fit with shoes. Number of patients - 172 Number of jiggers treated - 1,752 (3) Outreach House: Our most efficient method to fighting jiggers is the Outreach House, which brings healing to children and elderly people with the most severe cases, usually arriving with 100 or more jiggers on their body. We treat jiggers and equip children with the knowledge and tools to remain jigger-free for the rest of their lives. Patients are under the supervision of full-time nurses, a doctor, and caregivers for two weeks or more
where they are treated, taught healthy habits to remain jigger free, and receive psycho- social support from our social work team. Patients are provided three meals per day, education classes, two pairs of shoes, a set of clean clothing, and hygiene products. Additionally, our medical team, in partnership with local hospitals, strives to treat whatever other conditions patients present with from malaria to hernias. Number of patients at the outreach house - 1,009; Number of jiggers treated at outreach house - 110,068 (4) Home visits-- Sole Hope social workers now visit each and every patient who stays at the Outreach House. They strive to perform one-month, three-month, and six-month follow-up visits. Visits are aimed at mobilizing community support, reinforcing positive changes made during patients' stay at Outreach and early intervention in the case of re-infestation. Percent of patients living jigger free as of their latest follow up - 89% (5) Shoemaking-- Sole Hope employs 21 Ugandan tailors and shoemakers and pays them a fair wage to complete the shoes given out at clinics and the Outreach House. Number of pairs of shoes created 21,268 (6)Job creation- A key part of Sole Hope's mission in Uganda is creating jobs. Employment allows people to live a healthy lifestyle and raise their families not only jigger- free, but also as educated and productive members of society. Through the above-mentioned programs, Sole Hope employs Ugandan shoemakers', tailors doctors, nurses, social workers, educators, caretakers, drivers, etc...to work together towards our goal of zero jiggers. Number of full time Ugandan Sole Hope employees at the end of 2019 - 59
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Asher Singe | Board Chair/Executive Director | 10 | $44,035 |
| Kim Cummings | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Micah Ensor | Board Member | 4 | $0 |
| Ray Belcher | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Jeff Hackman | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
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