Meet Aster Lemma

Meet Aster Lemma

My name is Aster Lemma and I am 35 years old. I am a woman with many different interesting and touching stories. Before I was married as a teenager, I experienced problems with my feet, which created many struggles in my life. I could not afford to buy and wear shoes....
Graduation Day! – Mossy Foot Vocational Training

Graduation Day! – Mossy Foot Vocational Training

Our President, Sharon Daly, is presently in Ethiopia on her annual management visit. During this visit, she was able to participate in the graduation ceremony for some mossy foot patients who have received vocational training. Shown on the left is the joyful occasion...

Barefoot for Mossy Foot at Highpoint University

Students at High Point University in North Carolina learned what it was like to live “One day without shoes” in an event held April 7th and sponsored by the Alpha Phi Omega co-ed service fraternity and the TOMS Shoes Club. It was wonderful to learn that...

Announcing the 2011 Mossy Foot Fundraising Banquet

The 2011 Mossy Foot Fundraising Banquet has been scheduled for Thursday, May 19th at the Moorpark Country Club. Come join us to learn more about the Mossy Foot Project and how you can make a difference in the lives of the people of Ethiopia who are afflicted with this...

Mossy Foot at Rotary Symposium

Our President, Sharon Daly, was a workshop speaker at a Rotary District conference in Santa Maria, California this past weekend. The Symposium To Eliminate Poverty Sustainably (STEPS) was the perfect place to spread the word about mossy foot, a disease of poverty. The...

SHOES… the Key to Mossy Foot Prevention

Since 2005, the Mossy Foot Project has been championing and participating in the distribution of shoes to children in Ethiopia with the intent of preventing the onset of Mossy Foot disease. Since then, tens of thousands of pairs of shoes have been distributed. With...