very special man who Simply looking at an individual’s
spent a lifetime making feet he was able to carve the
very special shoes for some exact likeness from wood in order
very special feet recently passed to fit the shoe to the foot. He
away. For people with disfigured used a few assistive devices such
feet, shopping for shoes that as dye footprints or plaster
would enable them to walk was a castings and sometimes just paper
near impossibility. Robert Mokros tracings or simple sketches. His
lost his foot at the age of 13 unique talent permitted thousands
and found out exactly how of customers to purchase their
impossible it was for any of how first pair of shoes. Some his
new classmates to purchase shoes customers were able to walk for
could be. He was sent to a school the first time in their lives
for children with disabilities because of his special ability to
after the loss of his foot. There produce the necessary shoes.
he saw that many of his
classmates had disfigured feet Robert was a pioneer in the shoe
but could not buy shoes. In his industry and his techniques and
home country of Germany this ideas transformed the medical
could have life threatening industry’s outlook on people’s
effects in winter. need for prosthetic shoes. While
he remained in business almost up
Robert created his very special until the day he died, his idea
shoes for people with were sold to large shoe companies
disfigurements all around the who were able to produce these
world, and unlike shoe shopping specialized shoes faster and even
for most of us, he did not even a little more attractively.
need the foot the shoe was meant
for. There are a great number of
people who still benefit from
Robert’s shoe revolution. Very few able bodied people think
Thousands of people every year about the difficulties those with
are in need of prosthetic shoes foot disfigurements have in
and are now finally able to do purchasing shoes. Thanks to one
their own form of shoe shopping. man’s unique talent and
These unique shoes assist in compassion, he was able to
their ability to walk and in some provide the gift of mobility for
cases, allow them to walk when hundred of thousands of people
they would have no other form of world wide.
self mobility.
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