It is possible that one of your childhood memories is your mother saying: «I buy you this jacket a bigger size, so you can also use it next year». Children do not stop growing , time passes and, little by little, even the one that was your favorite shirt ends up being small.And what about shoes! Although sometimes we came to tear them apart for use, there were times when our feet simply no longer fit in those shoes.What did we do? Ask for our parents a new pair .Unfortunately, today there are many children who do not have this option.That's why... Wouldn't you find it interesting that there were some shoes that grow?
The shoes that grow with the child , which would solve a big problem in developing countries
The sad reality of children whose parents cannot afford new footwear was with which Kenton Lee came face to face, while I was working as a volunteer in Kenya .
I was talking to a little girl when she noticed that she had cut off the front of her shoes and your feet envelopes alian, to the point that her fingers touched the floor perfectly.She had broken her shoes because she was many sizes smaller than she needed and otherwise her little feet did not fit in it!
The worst thing is that of that one nina was not a unique case : there were many more creatures of all ages in the same situation.
I quickly got to the root of the problem: they couldn't afford a pair of new shoes , so either those who were little ones used them, adapting them as they could, or should go barefoot.
The problem of going barefoot
Kenton also noticed that wearing broken shoes or going barefoot not only undermined the child's self-esteem in that situation, but also was impaired his health .
When walking with the bare foot it is easy to make small cuts , if you also terrain is rugged, the chances of this happening are multiplying drastically.These wounds are not only a source of infections , because they are in constant contact with dirt, but also attract parasites that they take shelter in the skin of the human being, to inhabit their flesh, which can be a serious problem for the health of their hosts, over time.
Thus, Kenton He decided that this situation could not continue , he had to find a way that those children could put on shoes that would take them away from those dangers, which could put their lives at risk.
The idea of shoe Growing cough
Finally, the young man had an idea:
What if there were a pair of shoes that could be adjusted and expanded-so that children always had a shoes that were out of his size-?
Kenton, back in the US, decided to present his concept "the shoe that grows" to different companies that they created footwear, after all he didn't know anything about shoes.
At first nobody seemed interested , but the young man didn't give up.
He decided that the best way to realize his initiative was to join a small team.Then, they started creating different prototypes .Finally, a shoe development company called "Proof of Concept", from Portland (Oregon, USA) paid attention to them and became the perfect partners to design their new footwear .
The result was this:
As Kenton explained, the objective was durability rather than the aesthetics of the design , so that it is basically a functional footwear.This adapts to the size of the foot with the different positions of the strips and can be changed, as the limb grows.
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