Nurses for Africa is a nonprofit organization that takes licensed medical practitioners and sends them to various areas in Africa to bring much-needed medical supplies, treatments and clinics. Nurses for Africa partnered with Soles4Souls for their trip to Zambia this year. We gave them over 200 pairs of shoes to (Continue reading…)
Ken Bernhard joined the Travel4Souls team this past July on a trip to Costa Rica. He shared this encouraging letter with family and friends when he returned from the trip. And now, he wants to share it with you: “My grandson Guthrie, aka “Gus”, aka “Mr. G”, and I collected (Continue reading…)
News of the devastating Japan earthquake may have subsided over the past several months, but the damage it left still remains. Hundreds of thousands of people lost everything. Their homes and businesses we’re destroyed, clothes and shoes ruined. On top of trying to rebuild their lives, the people had to worry (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…)
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…)
It’s amazing hot much of a difference one year can make. No one knows that more than Stephen Carlton. This time last year, Stephen was living in sunny Southern California. Today, he calls Port-Au-Prince home, helping children with Haiti Outreach Ministries. Today, Stephen shares his journey & how it all (Continue reading…)
Footwear statistics report that toddler’s outgrow their shoes every 3-6 months. For some families, purchasing shoes can become a huge financial burden. We recently had the opportunity to help a Colorado family that was dealing with some of these struggles. The family is struggling to make ends meet because the father (Continue reading…)
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