Remember Jellies? Those classic white or clear plastic shoes that all the girls wore in the 80's or was it the 90's?
Everyone in rural Senegal wears jellies. They love them for rainy season and soccer. Last week i watch Bocar Diallo, the chief of Thokiethan do some shoe welding.
Shoe welding consists of heating up a knife in the fuel wood that is cooking dinner and using it to melt the plastic of the shoe. What happens is that the straps on these shoes eventually break off the sole. Shoe welding can be done repeatedly to keeps a shoe going for years.
A pair of jellies goes for around 2 dollars in the local markets and lasts one person for many years, with proper repairs.
-jesse
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