Students from "Avon Grove High" in West Grove, PA, coordinated a shoe drive at their school that
This young Fort Worth resident, with a little help from his parents, recently celebrated his first birthday by collecting more than fifty pairs of shoes for The Shoe Bank. .
Seniors from "Highland Springs" retirement community donated two hundred fifty pairs of shoes in 2008,
The Shoe Bank partners with the "One 5 Foundation" to provide shoes for kids in Haiti, where an estimated 640,000 children under the age of fifteen live in extreme poverty, and where the gift of a decent pair of shoes can often be a cause for celebration.
The Shoe Bank and "Hearts Across Romania" work together to provide shoes for children living in Romanian orphanages, as well as for young men like these from the city of Brasov who have graduated from the orphanages and are now enrolled in transitional programs designed to help them develop necessary life skills.
The Shoe Bank partners with the non-profit organization "Reclaim Childhood" to provide the shoes that make it possible for young Iraqi girls, living in Jordan as refugees, to participate in sports programs created to help develop their sense of physical and emotional well-being.
The Shoe Bank has worked with "Orphans of the World" to provide shoes for 150,000 Central American children since 1991. This young man lives at an orphanage for children carrying the HIV virus in Guatemala.
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The Shoe Bank
205 Becky Lane
Rockwall, Texas 75087
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Email: MichaelBarringer@sbcglobal.net
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