Two years ago today, disaster struck. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit near Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 12, 2010. 200,000 lives were lost. Almost 2 million were left homeless. It left homes shattered, buildings crumbled and the country crippled. Soles4Souls stepped in to help. Since the earthquake, we’ve distributed 1.4 MILLION (Continue reading…)
Today, we wanted to keep you update on what all is happening in the world of Soles4Souls. Here are some recent news articles! Fourth-Graders Collect Shoes for Soles4Souls We partnered with 1-800-Got-Junk! Keep LA Beautiful collected more than 28,000 pairs of shoes. Can you even count that high? Olivia Silman (Continue reading…)
Who doesn’t like being on camera, right? Everyone except well….the camera man! When prepping for this interview, I asked Brian if we could video tape him talking about his position and he responded with a prompt, “Uhhhh let’s please pass.” He might not have aspirations to be the face plastered (Continue reading…)
Wow! What a week it has been! Thousands of people across the United States have received a new pair of shoes & can now look up to a brighter future. Thousands of YOU have donated the shoes in your closets and off your own feet to help change the lives (Continue reading…)
Before we got into all the exciting events that are happenening today, we just wanted to take a quick second to say “Thank You” to everyone who donated their shoes during Barefoot Sunday yesterday. We cannot wait to hear what the final count from your shoe drives are going to (Continue reading…)
Today is one of our favorite days of Barefoot Week…… Barefoot Sunday! Today is the day that thousands of people will leave their shoes at the alter to give to people in need. And it is a busy day, for sure. Check out all that’s going on across the country (Continue reading…)
We can only hope that Day 3 of Barefoot Week is as good as the first two days…. We we’re blown away by the way you all responded and have been spreading the word about our cause! What’s going on today? For “Barefoot Friday” our team is traveling to St. Louis to distribute shoes (Continue reading…)
Just when we thought day Day 1 couldn’t get any better, it did. Hundreds of you stepped up to spread the word! We had news reporters from across the country going barefoot on air & reporting the effects to their viewers. All of this makes us even more excited to see (Continue reading…)
It’s here! Barefoot Week 2011 has officially started! It is going to be an incredible week packed full of shoe distributions, celebrity shoe auctions, hundreds of concurrent shoe drives, fun runs & walkathons, retail trade-in events, concerts, festivals and more. Yesterday, Founder & CEO Wayne Elsey kicked things off with famous weather (Continue reading…)
This Friday, April 22nd, thousands of organizations & individuals will be celebrating Earth Day. The idea…. do something to help our environment and make our world a better place. At Soles4Souls, there are two statistics that we’re brought to our attention that caused us to really emphasize the imporatance (Continue reading…)
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