Help children in Uganda walk in freedom.
Your generosity brings healing, dignity, and hope to children living with preventable pain.
You help write new stories of hope in Uganda.
Sole Hope is a health nonprofit in Uganda providing foot care for children and jigger removal for families living with preventable pain. We serve kids who are often overlooked, helping them receive the care they need to walk, play, and learn again.
Your support brings simple medical care, protective shoes, and follow up that keeps children healthy long term. Every gift helps a child move from pain and shame to confidence and hope.
What your support makes possible in Uganda.
Jiggers don’t just hurt feet. They can pull kids out of school, push parents out of work, and leave families carrying shame. Sole Hope responds with a clear system, three programs working together to bring treatment close, strengthen prevention, and help healing last.
Walk In Freedom Clinics
We partner with government hospitals and health centers so jigger care becomes local and consistent. Patients receive treatment, prevention education, and protective shoes, right where they already seek care.
Mobile Medical Clinics
For more than 15 years, we’ve traveled into schools and villages to wash feet, remove jiggers, treat wounds, teach hygiene, and provide shoes. We keep returning until communities can stay jigger free.
Brighter Days Mental Health Center
When trauma, depression, or addiction go untreated, physical healing often doesn’t last. Brighter Days provides mental health and recovery care so families can rebuild and healing can hold.
What are jiggers?
Jiggers, also known as tungiasis, are parasitic sand fleas that burrow into the skin, most often in the feet. They cause intense pain, swelling, infection, and open wounds that make it difficult for children to walk, sleep, or attend school.
In rural Uganda, jiggers spread quickly where families lack closed-toe shoes, safe flooring, and access to nearby medical care. Without treatment, the condition worsens and daily life begins to shut down.
The impact goes beyond physical suffering. Children with jiggers are often isolated, mocked, or labeled as cursed or unclean. That stigma leads to shame, fear, and lasting emotional harm.
Jiggers are not just a medical problem. They are a social, psychological, and spiritual burden that keeps families trapped in pain and isolation.
Learn more about jiggers
From hiding in pain to running again.
Paul used to hide his feet. The pain from jiggers kept him from walking without fear and made school feel impossible. He worried that others would notice, or worse, decide he wasn’t worth being around.
When Paul came to Sole Hope, he received gentle care, clean bandages, and new protective shoes. He heard words of encouragement and felt the kind of welcome every child deserves.
Over time his wounds healed, his confidence grew, and he stepped back into life with joy.
Your support is already changing lives.
Together you are helping children move from pain to progress, from hiding in shame to walking in freedom.
Your gift brings healing and hope.
Every donation helps a child in Uganda receive medical care, jigger removal, and shoes that protect healing feet. Thank you for standing with children who are waiting for help.