Feature: Tanzanian man earns a living by making sandals from used tires

DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- It was almost 35 degrees Celsius outside, and Patrick Yoram Sudae and about a dozen other men were busy making traditional sandals from used car tires in the shade at Tabata-Relini along the Mandela Expressway in Tanzania's port city of Dar es Salaam.

"I learned to make sandals from used car tires from my father," Sudae told Xinhua in a recent interview.