Prevent Helminthes. Enhance Education. Sanma Christmas Shoe Run

Shoes for poor children help prevent helminthes disease 

Helminthes is one of the major health problems faced by hundreds of millions of school-age children. Since helminthes is soil transmitted, the majority of the helminthes victims are children who live in the slums and rural villages where sanitary and health conditions are low and the soil is contaminated.

Mubina is a five year old girl who lives in slum colony of India. Her mother is a poor widow who struggles to feed her children. Mubina walks to school barefoot on the dirt road, just like all other children in her community. Unfortunately the slum they live is also the place where the city dumps all kinds of waste, including toxic waste. Little Mubina became often sick and was an easy prey to soil soil-transmitted helminthes (hookworm disease). Read about Sanma Children's Healthy Village program that educate people ways to prevent helminthes.

Helminthes destroys the tissues and organs in which they live, and cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, intestinal obstruction, anemia, ulcers. Helminthes also cause the child to have poor appetite, which even furthers the malnutrition and anemia.

Since helminthes consume nutrients from the children they infect, the poor and malnourished children who are affected by helminthes quickly become vulnerable to more diseases. continuous illness affects the child's ability to learn, and thus deprives him/her from a desirable future.

A pair of shoes can protect Mubina's little feet, and help prevent the attack of helminthes. Sadly, as far as her poor mother is concerned, it would take a near miracle that would afford her a pair of shoes each for her children. Mubina is not alone. Thousands of slum children await such a miracle. Owning a new pair of shoes will be a miracle to them, a miracle you can perform today!

Even if the euphoria created by commercialized Christmas seems to overshadow the beauty and power of Christmas at times, if celebrated thoughtfully, this special occasion can perform miracles in many lives. Sanma seek to present opportunities, where you can take the miracle of Christmas to people through simple, yet significant gifts.

To some, it takes a miracle to know the miracle of Christmas. It takes you.

Ways you can help:

Christmas gift- a new pair of shoes for a child $5

New shoes for 100 children $500

New shoes for the students of a poor school $1250