a picture says a thousand words

I bought these boots five or six years ago on my first trip overseas. Ugly as they are they have kept my feet warm whilst trudging through snow, dry in the wet, and now they have managed to keep me upstanding whilst painstakingly stepping through the muddy roads in Kenya, at times, holding Nate who was very wriggly and determined to get back down to the mud.

It was astounding to think that the children we sponsor live in this mud. Not only do they not have hiking boots designed for such terrain but some of them do not even have the luxury of shoes.