MANUFACTURING SHOES FROM PLASTICS AND OTHER NON BIO-DEGRADABLE WASTE

The project will mainly involve collecting materials considered as waste in the environment and synthesizing them basing on their different properties from using MATERIALS IN CHEMISTRY to make properly fitting, flexible and waterproof shoes. This project was inspired by the stories that friends told us about people in their villages suffering from different diseases in their feet like jiggers (tungiasis) and anaemia from hookworm infestation. The source of information on these diseases is the World Book Encyclopedia.

The purpose for this project is to provide people with shoes, reducing the risk and number of people that acquire feet diseases, through sensitizing and availing them with information on how to locally make  affordable shoes using readily available materials in our environment.