When Jack Parker lost his right leg to neurofibromatosis eight years ago, he was met with a specific detail of being an amputee — he only needed one shoe, not two.

Frustrated by only being able to use the left of the pair, he was forced to throw away the right shoe.

But after giving the situation more thought, he decided to create a platform to sell singular shoes to fellow amputees who were tired of wasting money on pairs, so he started Swapping Shoes with Amputees.

"Pretty much I was thinking 'How can I help?'. It gets really hard to buy two shoes and you can only use one so you chuck the other one out," he said.

"I thought 'Why not try and see what goes from there?', so I went around and asked a few people if they could donate a few shoes. They donated heaps and then it took off."

Now 26, Mr Parker has come a long way since losing his leg in 2008.

"My leg was pretty much a massive tumour, so it was kind of a last resort [to get it] cut off," he said.

"It's been hard, but I've pushed through. It's a big process, losing a limb."

Jack Parker, creator of Swap Shoes with Amputees, at his home in Sale. ( ABC Gippsland: Zoe Ferguson )

New model to help make shoes affordable for amputees

The cost of buying a singular shoe from Mr Parker worked out cheaper than buying a pair, he said, depending on where you lived in the world.

"The shoe is free itself from my page, they just pay for the postage. Around Australia it's cheap, but posting overseas gets more expensive," he said.

"It's usually $50 plus for a shoe normally so if you get three shoes that's $50 for postage, and in Australia it's $20 or something.

"The interest its very big. It's worldwide really; I have had people from Malaysia, America, all over Australia."

Boxes full of singular shoes are stored in Jack Parker's home. ( ABC Gippsland: Zoe Ferguson )

An estimated 50 companies and organisations have donated shoes to Mr Parker's project, resulting in boxes of shoes piling up in his home.

"I have probably more than 1,000 shoes, so a lot of variety," he said.

"I keep them at my local family home, but I'm hoping to get a storage unit … I'm running out of room."

For the time being, Mr Parker is eager to keep the project running out of Gippsland, but he has high hopes for the future.

"I'd hope to make it worldwide. It's slowly getting there, but I hope I can help everyone who needs it," he said.

"It'll be nice to branch it out a lot more and get it noticed because I know there are a lot more people out there who could use it."