Project 41: Zero Jiggers Education - Uganda

We are continuing our partnership with Sole Hope for the third time, taking their outstanding initiatives and extending them throughout Uganda. This project focuses on identifying hotspots for jigger infestations and running monthly prevention education classes throughout 2022.

Healing Soles All Year Long, we are partnering with Sole Hope yet again on their Zero Jiggers Campaign. Sole Hope’s Mission is to bring healing to people suffering from jigger infections in Uganda.

They conduct clinics throughout rural villages in Uganda, removing thousands of jiggers in a single day. Jiggers are small parasitic fleas that burrow into the hands and feet of individuals before laying eggs. They cause pain, isolation, and loss of toes among thousands of people in Uganda. They prevent children from going to school, mothers from fetching clean water, and fathers from working.

Knowledge is power and Sole Hope’s monthly education classes are aimed at equipping individuals with the correct practical information on how to prevent jigger infections. Their goal for this phase of the project is to conduct 60 monthly education sessions across the year with 200 attendees per seminar, targeting 36,000 people in total.

30 sessions will be conducted in the community, while the other 30 sessions will take place in schools in the Busoga and Bugisu regions in Eastern Uganda. Sole Hope will be working in communities across five districts: Sironko, Luuka, Namisindwa, Manafwa, and Bududa.

Help Sole Hope with their goal of a “zero-jiggers Uganda”. Prevention is the best solution to the harms that jiggers cause. Please support the incredible work of Sole Hope by sponsoring jigger education classes throughout 2022.