{"id":8577,"date":"2015-05-04T19:46:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T16:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2020-08-27T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:35:10","slug":"this-invention-will-help-millions-of-poor-children-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/this-invention-will-help-millions-of-poor-children-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"This Invention Will Help Millions of Poor Children Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are millions of children around the world that have no shoes to wear, or whose shoes don’t fit them.<\/h2>\n
The result is going barefoot, and susceptible to injuries as well as parasites that can be sustained by the feet.<\/p>\n
Even if shoes are donated in bulk, over time the feet outgrow them, much faster so in the case of children<\/strong>, who are constantly developing and growing.<\/p>\n
That’s when a simple guy named Kenton Lee had an idea, having had no previous experience or clue about shoes or design. He thought, \u201cwhat if we made one shoe that just grows along with the foot over the years?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
And that was all it took. The idea soon became The Shoe That Grows<\/strong>, a sandal that is designed in such a way so it can grow five shoe sizes within five years.<\/p>\n
The sandals come in small and large sizes, making it much easier to find proper size, and saving the trouble of the multi-sized system widely used when looking for shoes. While you can buy your own pair, the product’s site promotes packages that make it possible to send shoes that grow to impoverished countries, in large quantities.<\/p>\n
In an interview, Kenton Lee talks about the journey of The Show that Grows:<\/h4>\n
\u201cWe found a shoe development company called Proof of Concept in Portland, Oregon<\/em>. They were the perfect partner to help design our shoes<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n