Samaritan's Feet to collaborate with Katrinashoes.org
30 Sep '05
3 min read
Samaritan's Feet International, a Charlotte-based humanitarian and inter-faith evangelical organization dedicated to equipping the feet of impoverished families with shoes in the US and around the world, announced they will be partnering with Katrinashoes.org in the Million Pair March to raise and deliver shoes to families, student evacuees returning to school in their new cities, and victims of the latest hurricanes that have hit the gulf states Katrinashoes.org was launched by Wayne Elsey, President & CEO of Kodiak-Terra USA Inc.
Elsey was the brainchild behind the recent Tsunami Shoe Drive, which raised about $3 million in footwear donations for victims of the Tsunami disaster in Indonesia earlier this year. Elsey wanted to respond to the footwear needs of victims of hurricane Katrina after watching a CNN broadcast that reported that only 1 in 5 people at the evacuee shelters have shoes. "Samaritan's Feet is a good fit for swift distribution of the product to the victims,' Elsey said. 'The people of Samaritan's Feet have an awesome heart and they will foster smiles in the recipients,' Elsey said.
This needs to change now, and they as Americans can do something about this, says Emmanuel 'Manny' Ohonme, President and Founder of Samaritan's Feet. Ohonme understands this need from personal experience, having grown up in Nigeria without shoes. 'This is something you see happen in Africa and other parts of the world, not here at home in America,' he added. The experience of receiving his first pair of shoes from an American stranger at the age of 9 serves as the vision for Samaritan's Feet to equip the feet of 10 million impoverished children with 10 million pairs of shoes over the next ten years
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