To watch the transformation of the old shoes you have to travel to Mumbai.
Local residents Shriyans and Ramesh Company Greensole is transforming old shoes into new ones.
Yes, guys OLD SHOES NEW SWAG.
Shriyans and Ramesh have run marathons and no one knows the value of shoes better than runners.
While running in Priyadarshini park, Shriyans came across Ramesh who had his old shows on and was re-using them. He approached Ramesh and suggested to him that they should take this further.
A competition for innovators was being held at the Jai Hind college they applied for that.
They entered the competition at EDI Ahmedabad where they got a very positive response within a month, they were on the top 30 innovators list.
From research, they found out that 35 crores pairs of shoes are discarded every year and they end up in landfills that turn into a mountain of the waste but the genius friends felt that these discard shoes can be reused and that was it.
Shriyans and Ramesh launched Greensole in 2015.
You see there was clearly a mismatch in people throwing away old shoes while some have no shoes at all and he thought Greensole could bridge that gap.
Traveling to school, his feet would burn in the heat get thrones in them and pick up many diseases without shoes. So, he knows the kind of problems they face.
Even today, there are villages where children walk to school barefoot to these children Greensole's gift to footwear is something incredibly precious.
To date, Greensole has donated over 3 lakh pairs of shoes in 2000 schools across 15 states and they plan to donate 5 lakh shoes by 2020.
Grrensole's huge initiative has brought about a huge change to the children's life their attendance has greatly increased. Now every student wears shoes for school they are happy to come to school.
Amazing! among the list of people who have appreciated Greensole includes Ratan Tata and Barack Obama they also congratulated Greensole for the initiative.
In addition to that, Forbes has included them in the list of top 30 social startups.
Anything that you're throwing away has the potential to be reused by you or by some else and this is Greensole's concept.
Greensole is an eco-friendly initiative that refurbishes discarded shoes and gives them to those children who don't own one.
Guys, Shriyans, and Ramesh indeed deserve an OMG salute.
Local residents Shriyans and Ramesh Company Greensole is transforming old shoes into new ones.
Yes, guys OLD SHOES NEW SWAG.
Shriyans and Ramesh have run marathons and no one knows the value of shoes better than runners.
While running in Priyadarshini park, Shriyans came across Ramesh who had his old shows on and was re-using them. He approached Ramesh and suggested to him that they should take this further.
A competition for innovators was being held at the Jai Hind college they applied for that.
They entered the competition at EDI Ahmedabad where they got a very positive response within a month, they were on the top 30 innovators list.
From research, they found out that 35 crores pairs of shoes are discarded every year and they end up in landfills that turn into a mountain of the waste but the genius friends felt that these discard shoes can be reused and that was it.
You see there was clearly a mismatch in people throwing away old shoes while some have no shoes at all and he thought Greensole could bridge that gap.
- Old shoes are taken apart to determine whether they need a new sole or a new upper part.
- Then they cut out to die as needed to build a new part and then the old and the new parts are attached together to make new shoes.
So what do they do with tons of refurbished shoes:-
Till date, Greensole has donated over 3 lakh pairs of refurbished shoes sharing his childhood memories Ramesh tells us how the donations are changing the lives of many children.
Even today, there are villages where children walk to school barefoot to these children Greensole's gift to footwear is something incredibly precious.
To date, Greensole has donated over 3 lakh pairs of shoes in 2000 schools across 15 states and they plan to donate 5 lakh shoes by 2020.
Grrensole's huge initiative has brought about a huge change to the children's life their attendance has greatly increased. Now every student wears shoes for school they are happy to come to school.
In addition to that, Forbes has included them in the list of top 30 social startups.
Anything that you're throwing away has the potential to be reused by you or by some else and this is Greensole's concept.
Greensole is an eco-friendly initiative that refurbishes discarded shoes and gives them to those children who don't own one.
- The company has donated over 3,00,000 pairs of footwear.
- They receive around 2,000-2,500 pairs of old footwear every month for refurbishing.
- Greensole has made it to the Forbes "30 under 30" lists of social startups.
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