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