Kenya: Check Out A Company That makes Millions Turning discarded flip-flops Into Colourful Toys

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Now, with the rate at which people are losing their jobs in this sad economic downturn, there is no telling the fact that you would have to seek out ways to be creative. And even if you have yet to be affected by this sad reality, do not relax in your comfort zone, find out what you can do in order to beat the rat race that most of us are in.

Here is what creativity is all about. Thinking outside of the box made Julie Church her known today in Kenya. She owns a recycling company that picks up discarded shoes and then make them into toys that are now shipped and bought around the world.

Take a look at her works

The colorful handmade giraffes, elephants and warthogs made in a Nairobi workshop were once only dirty pieces of rubber cruising the Indian Ocean’s currents.

Kenya’s Ocean Sole sandal recycling company is cleaning the East African country’s beaches of used, washed-up flip-flops and other sandals.

About 45 workers in Nairobi make 100 different products from the discarded flip-flops. In 2008, the company shipped an 18-foot giraffe to Rome for display during a fashion week.

Company founder Julie Church says the goal of her company is to create products that people want to buy, then make them interested in the back-story.