The WORLD SHOE
Social Enterprise Solution
CROSS-CUTTING SOLUTIONS
Adaptable and bundled health service interventions supported by locally-sourced products.
CO-CREATED INNOVATIONS
Maximizing the experience and expertise of stakeholders and end-users to empower those most effected by poverty and preventable disease to build their own pathway to prosperity and better health outcomes.
LOCAL & REGIONAL MANUFACTURING
Narrowing income gaps and fostering the creation of generational wealth through investment in trade vs. depressing economies and disincentivizing entrepreneurship through shortsighted infusions of foreign aid.
COLLECTIVE IMPACT
“Development doesn’t only mean moving from walking barefoot to wearing shoes. It means reaching a level where you are able to make the shoes you want to wear.”
- Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
INVESTING IN HEALTH SUPPORTING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INCREASES ECONOMIC POTENTIAL CREATING GENERATIONAL WEALTH
SYSTEMIC CHANGE
• Cognitive Shift in Community Health and Hygiene Strategies
• Scalability of manufacturing and community-based distribution models
• Cross-sector value proposition for diverse stakeholders
• Economic resilience embedded in vulnerable eco-systems
AN UNJUST CYCLE
preventable disease
poor hygiene
poverty DIRECT SERVICE (AID)
STABILIZING TREATMENT
shoe wearing hygiene training vaccines
innovative products bundled interventions
community ownership
MARKETBASED MULTIPLIER (TRADE)
local manufacturing retail markets
SUSTAINING SYSTEMIC CHANGE
cross-sector collaboration collective impact partnerships
“Investing in NTD elimination programmes creates a ripple effect. It leads to better education, health and employment outcomes. It transforms lives and our communities. An Africa free from NTDs is possible. Let us act now, and act together. Ghana is 100% Committed to ending neglected tropical diseases.”
- Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana
GLOBAL HEALTH FROM THE GROUND UP
protect from injury prevent disease promote hygiene provide access to health services
propel vaccine uptake
A prophylactic kids want to wear
Samaritan’s Feet is a humanitarian aid non-profit that serves and inspires hope by providing shoes to those in need around the world.
Since its founding in 2003, Samaritan’s Feet and its partners have served 10,160, 241 people across 109 countries and 600+ US cities.
In their efforts to share hope with the world’s most disadvantaged, Samaritan’s Feet encountered a deadly health crisis affecting millions of people. It started with the goal of sharing hope with 10 million. Along the way, the model became a worldwide movement. Today, millions more have Access to Health Services, Economic Opportunity, a Platform for Peace, and Access to Proper Education.
In the midst of suffering, a life-giving social enterprise was born.
10,000,000
WORLD SHOE ENTERPRISE
$1M Prototype Funding to $20M Catalytic Investment
30,000+
Ghanaian and Rwandan Pilot Recipients
1.5M
Pairs sold at profit for Humanitarian Distribution
8 MONTHS
From Lease Signing to Factory Production
500,000
World Shoe Pairs Manufactured
1.2M
Views of Grand Opening Press Release
1000 Temporary Jobs Created
150 Permanent Jobs Created
$8.5M
Invested in Ghanian Economy
12+ Countries
WASH&WEAR Distribution Partnerships
FIRST EVA Shoe Factory in Ghana
ENTERPRISE LEADERSHIP
EMMANUEL “MANNY” OHONME
CEO
World Shoe, Inc.
Founder Samaritan’s Feet International
Chairman, Sanford Health International Board
KOJO B. TAYLOR
President
World Shoe, LTD.
Technology Services EntrepreneurINC 500 Recognition
President, Sanford International Clinics - Africa
COURTNEY CASH
President
The World Shoe Fund
Founder Simply Strategic Consulting
Professor, Social Entrepreneurship and NGO Management
STEVE KAYS
VP of Sales
Former Nike and Nordstrom
RAYMUND WU
VP of Manufacturing
Former Otraject and King Steel Machinery
ASTOR CHAMBERS
VP of Marketing
Former Nike and Apple Beats
CHARLES JOHNSON
Chief Designer
Carnegie Mellon University and Puma Group
LUTHER COPIEL
VP Global Logistics
Former JBT Corporation and HD Supply
SETH OFFEI
Ghanaian Factory Manager
Former Nexans Kabelmetal Ghana