Warning! There is a graphic image of the effects of a foot disease in this blog post. DO NOT read this post if you are at all squeamish.
These are the shoes I found in our house tonight when I was thinking about this blog post.
31 pairs of shoes, for a family of five…. and that doesn’t include slippers, water socks and cleats.
The picture below is of the feet of a man with ‘Mossy Foot‘ (also known as Podoconiosis – or Podo for short)
Nobody has yet quite worked out exactly what causes Mossy Foot but they do know that it only affects people who walk around on red-clay soil without shoes on.
In other words, the man in the image above would have a normal foot if he just had even one pair of shoes to wear.
31 pairs of shoes for five people in my house / No shoes and a debilitating disease because of it for many people in Africa.
There’s something wrong with this picture.
The first picture looks like my wife’s closet.
The second? Sad.
🙂 Ahh… the response of a married man! 🙂
I realize that the number of pairs of shoes my family has is drastically lower than many people in the Western World… but it’s still dozens more than we need!
Thanks for commenting, bro.
Makes me think of the old saying:
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met the man who had no feet”
We take so very much for granted and in our abundance can’t see how just a very little of what we have can be life to another!
Exactly!
I don’t know which I find more pitiful: Our lack of compassion for our fellow man or our selfish whining about how ‘little’ we ourselves have,
So humbling.
Ain’t THAT the truth!
Oh my goodness. You’re so right. A beautifully apposite illustration of our excesses as others go without. Thank you for showing this so clearly- we need to do what we can to correct this.
Thank you.
Yes we do!
And thank you for coming by and commenting!
It’s good to ‘meet’ you.