We keep showing up until pain no longer defines a family’s future.
In communities affected by jiggers, illness, and poverty, healing takes more than a single visit. Sole Hope serves in Eastern Uganda with treatment, prevention, mental health care, and recovery support that helps healing last.
These programs work like a care pathway, relief comes first, then protection, then deeper recovery, with long-term support that stays close to home.
Care stays close, consistent, and complete.
Jiggers are not only physical. They can carry shame, isolation, and trauma. That is why we pair medical care with prevention, safe recovery for severe cases, and mental health care in Uganda through Brighter Days.
Five ways the work connects.
Each program has a distinct role, together they create lasting outcomes in rural communities and government health facilities across Eastern Uganda.
Weekly treatment, wound care, hygiene education, and shoes in villages and schools.
Jigger care inside government clinics through training, supplies, and referral pathways.
Mental health care and recovery support in Uganda, integrated with medical treatment.
Short-term residential care for severe cases needing time, nutrition, and daily treatment.
From your hands to their feet, denim cut in the U.S., crafted in Uganda with tire soles.
When care comes to a community, people stop suffering in silence.
Our teams travel weekly to villages and schools to wash feet, remove jiggers, treat wounds, teach prevention, and fit protective shoes. We return again and again, because sustained care is what breaks the cycle.
Severe cases are referred into The Hope Center, and ongoing follow up supports long-term healing.
The Walk In Freedom program puts jigger care inside government clinics.
This is not a “walk-in” clinic model. Walk In Freedom is the name of Sole Hope’s partnership program that equips government health facilities to treat jiggers with consistency. We train medical staff, supply tools and materials, and ensure patients leave with protection for healing feet.
Best for people who care about long-term, local access to health care in Eastern Uganda.
Treating the feet is not always enough.
Jiggers can carry more than physical pain. Shame, isolation, trauma, and addiction often follow. Brighter Days provides mental health care and recovery support in Eastern Uganda, integrated with medical care so healing can last.
This includes trauma-informed counseling, addiction recovery support, and community-based stigma reduction, because lasting health includes the mind and heart.
Best for people who want whole-person healing and long-term recovery to be part of health care in Uganda.
Some cases need more than a clinic day, they need time.
The Hope Center is a short-term residential care program in Jinja for severe jigger cases and complicated infections. Patients receive daily treatment, nutrition, safe rest, and follow up planning so recovery holds after they return home.
Best for people who want to support the most vulnerable and see the hardest stories turn.
From your hands to their feet, shoes that protect and create jobs.
Shoe cutting parties in the U.S. turn donated denim into cut patterns that are shipped to Uganda. There, we employ Ugandan tailors and shoemakers to finish each pair with durable, recycled tire soles.
This matters for two reasons. First, closed-toe shoes protect healing feet and help prevent reinfestation. Second, employment is part of the healing, stable work strengthens families, and dignity grows when someone can provide.
It is also a practical environmental win, denim and tires are diverted from landfills and turned into long-lasting protection for the people most at risk.
Best for people who want prevention, local jobs, and a hands-on way for communities in the U.S. to participate.
Want to go deeper?
Start with the program that matches your interests, then explore how it connects to the full care pathway across Eastern Uganda.
If you are looking specifically for mental health care in Uganda, start with Brighter Days.