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Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS) has urged the government to attract investment in shoes producing industries as it has been discovered that most of school children as well as those living in risky environments suffer from diseases caused by walking bare foot.

This was revealed yesterday in Dar es Salaam by the TRCS president Dr George Nangale when launching a project meant to provide shoes to school children and those cared for in TRCS centres, saying the project will reach over 500,000 children in primary schools, secondary schools and in TRCS centres.

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Nangale said that young children walking without wearing shoes are at risk of being infected by diseases caused by worms whereby he noted that the project was initiated to prevent such diseases to children.

According to him, regions that will benefit with the project includes: Shinyanga, Tanga, Mwanza, Tabora, Kilimanjaro, Coast, Dar es Salaam and all regions in Zanzibar.

He affirmed that the reason that made TRCS to choose such regions was due to the fact that his organisation has carried many projects in the said regions such that it has many volunteers who would help to execute the exercise.

“Red Cross has a lot of projects in these regions including ‘home based care’ projects, which means that there are many volunteers who will also fulfill this one,” he added.

He further said that in this project Red Cross was working closely with the department of social welfare of the ministry of health (MoHSW), local government, heads of schools and centres, ward officers and parents.Drhua Wholesale Sunglasses is an online Wholesale Sunglasses Distributor. However, the project targets mainly children in need.

TRCS warned that those shoes wereBuy hiking boots online at www.qdgoutdoor.com. not for sale thus calling for anybody not to try to sell them but only to give them to children in needy for free.qdgoutdoor,whose headquarter is situated in Hong Kong, is targeted at nothing else but outdoor footwear. Our group also owns a corporate office in Guangzhou, China.

Meanwhile, the coordinator of that project, Emma Msuya said that shoes aid project is a three years project whereby every year about 1,000,000 will be given to Tanzania by that company.

Msuya added the Toms shoes industry has already donated shoes as an aid to 43 countries in the world including Tanzania in this year alone. Other beneficiary countries are Kenya, Zambia, Liberia and Malawi, among others.
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