Help poverty stricken Countries and bring in your old shoes. Shoes can be donated in any of the resource centers or in teacher’s classrooms around the school from now until March 24, 2016.

MYP freshman Lindsay Cann and Tabitha Willden are doing a world awareness project for their IB 9 English class. “Soles4souls is a project, they collect shoes from first and second world countries and send them to third world countries,” Cann said.

Shoes of any size, damaged or missing one all can – and will – be used stated on a poster in Activities. “[The shoes] can be in any condition at all, if they have holes or anything like that the organization will fix them before they send them down to Africa,” Cann said. “You can also bring in one shoe because they will buy another shoe to match up with it or they will find another one that matches.”

Stated on Soles4Souls website their vision (goal) is to eradicate poverty by 2050. “We’re sending [shoes] to Africa because a lot of the kids are required to have shoes in order to go to school, so we would like to send them some shoes so that they can have an education,” Cann said.

There are other ways that students can help as well. They can make money donations on the Soles4Souls website. “We’re spreading awareness throughout the school, so maybe they can help out in different ways by themselves,” Willden said.

Junior Kyle Almanza is all for donating old shoes to help out for a good cause. “That way they’re not walking around barefoot and stepping on glass, nails or anything terrible,” Almanza said. “I think it’s a good idea to donate shoes that way everyone has shoes to wear and not just people who have the money to buy them.”

Stated on the Soles4Souls website 1.2 billion people live on less than a $1.25 per day. 400 million are children and many of them don’t have access to life’s basic necessities. Let’s give them access to some basic necessities and donate old and unused shoes.