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Barefoot Week Huge Success
Our annual Barefoot Week was again a success for Soles4Souls. During Barefoot Week, June 1-7, 2010, Soles4Souls scheduled several shoe distributions nationwide and continued to raise awareness of our mission across America. The cities were Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Detroit, Charlotte and San Diego and we distributed about 40,000 pairs during the week. Soles4Souls also took the opportunity during Barefoot Week to challenge people to go barefoot for a day, in order to understand how going without shoes can really affect someone.
Our distributions varied greatly. In Los Angeles, it was at the Skid Row Mission and Cacee Cobb, Soles4Souls spokesperson and VH1's "Price of Beauty" co-star, attended and helped distribute footwear. In Minneapolis, Soles4Souls distributed at a soup kitchen, in Detroit, an after school center for girls received the gift of shoes, Soles4Souls also distributed much needed footwear in Charlotte, NC and Unity Church supported our distribution efforts in San Diego.
We are very thankful to the many footwear companies that so generously donate shoes to us, and also to the millions of our donors who clean out their closets and give financially, so that we can keep giving people HOPE through the gift of shoes!
Tiffany Johnson
Soles4Souls' Spokesperson
