My dad has met Gary and has purchased his book! Glad to connect on an issue that truly has the ability to has the opportunity to change lives. Another great organization in Africa is solehope.org people from the states cut out patterns for shoes from old jeans a milk carton and quilters cotton. You then send the cut outs (usually sent in a large quantities as it is done by groups working together at "cutting parties") along with ten dollars per pair and this provides a job for someone there sewing together the shoes with a recycled car tire as a sole. It provides a child with shoes to prevent parasites called jiggers which infect many children without shoes and lay eggs and cause painful sores on the feet. The money also provides medical care to remove jiggers from those infected and also to fumigate houses to rid them. Hope to see more of you here and I will gladly support your posts and encourage others as it can be a challenge to make sure people will actually give the money to the charity instead of pocketing it and scamming other people for their own selfish benefit