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Title: The ShoeAid PRoject
Location:
Global
Categories: Culture
Environment
Health
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
January 28 09 to January 28 09
Description:
Shoe Aid is a project which seeks to improve living standards and to make life easier by donating shoes to people in Africa who cannot afford a pair of shoe. Without shoes many people in many deprived areas in Cameroon and many African countries are unable to meet up with their daily activities and tasks, which automatically slow down development. Children cannot go to school, parents find it difficult to go to work or farms, youths cannot freely take part in various sporting activities, mothers and women cannot go to the church or markets. The lack of shoes within many families is always a problematic issue whereby children playing without shoes usually get themselves injured either by a bottle, nail, some wild plants or what ever, usually resulting to drastic bacterial and fungi infections. Parents are always encountered with extreme temperatures during the year which makes it difficult for them to take up their daily activities. Providing with new portable shoes goes to enhance their self esteem.\r\n\r\nYou can immediately take action today by looking in your closet for an old pair of clean shoes which you no longer need and donate to this project. This shoe will go to bring a smile to its new owner.
Background:
Shoe Aid is a shoe donation program where shoes are collected and freely distributed to children in Cameroon and neighbouring countries.\r\n\r\nThis is a project initiated by Hope Foundation Cameroon which is a non profitable and non governmental organisation which has the objective to promote development and alleviate poverty in rural area! Hope Foundation has for the past years been implementing development projects and programs in Cameroon which has gone a long run to improve living standards in many communities!\r\n\r\nFootwear has been worn for ten of thousands of years but it is still embarrassing to know that there are still many people in our world of today lacking a pair of shoe to wear. There is no single day which ever passes by without someone in the western world putting a nice pair of shoe on. Some people can change up to three pairs of shoes a day and have a closet full with dozens upon dozens of shoes ranging from boots, sneakers, moccasins, sandals, slippers and so on! On the other hand, many children and parents in some other areas of the world go for days, weeks, months, years or even their life time without possessing a pair of shoe. This hinders development in these areas and many of these people cannot meet up their objectives and expectations
Objectives:
Our goal and aim with this project is to meet the fundamental needs of thousands of children and families in Cameroon by sending them thousands of pairs of shoes which they shall us to enhance their daily activities.
Needs:
There are many ways you can help and contribute to make this project a success:\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\nDonate shoes: Donating clean gently worn shoes to this project will go help to help someone in Cameroon without a pair of shoes. We welcome clean shoes of all sizes and types (sneakers, boots, slippers, dress and casual shoes and more). Clean and gently worn shoes are highly welcomed! You can donate them shoe cartons or in plastic papers. Just take a look in your closet or warehouse and donate one or more pairs of shoes to help a number of people without shoes in Cameroon and other African countries. We welcome donations from individuals and businesses.\r\n \r\n\r\nDonate your time: Dedicating your time and energy as a volunteer shall greatly help in promoting our project. We need volunteers who can help us in collecting shoes, cleaning and packaging them. Volunteers can dedicate some hours on weekends whereby they shall be working on various collecting points in various towns and cities.\r\n \r\n\r\nDonate money: Donate money to make our project succeed. We need financial assistance to pay for costs related to renting the warehouse, fuel cost for our van, and shipment cost to Africa. Donations are tax deductible and you can either donate online through paypal or by sending us a check to our address:\r\nHope Foundation\r\nc/o Fonkenmun Gerald\r\nViktoria Luise Platz 12A\r\n10777 Berlin\r\nGermany \r\n\r\ninfo@shoeaid.org\r\ninfo@hope-found.org
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