 Welcome to the Mercy Minute from Mercyships.org. When Anama was a young boy in Togo, he used to walk to his father's farm to work. He found that walking in flip-flops didn't protect his feet. He needed something better, something stronger. So he had an idea to fashion shoes out of old tires. They say necessity is the mother of invention, and this was true for Anama. Anama served on board the Africa Mercy with the physical therapy team.