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ARTHUR S. PAGE INSURANCE
AGENCY HELPS THOSE IN NEED WITH A
SHOE DRIVE TO BENEFIT SOLES4SOULS®
INC, THE SHOE CHARITY.
With the partnership of
Soles4Souls Inc., we have
committed to collect and distribute
shoes to people living in extreme
poverty and recovering from natural
disasters. Shoes are the best way to
protect local people from disease
after a natural disaster. Also, in
some countries a child must have
shoes to attend school; not owning
shoes is one of the reasons why so
many children do not go to school.
There are an estimated 1.1 billion
people in the world living without a
pair of shoes, 300 million are
children. Since 2005, Soles4Souls
has
distributed
more than 13 million pairs of shoes,
almost one pair of shoes to a person
in need every 7 seconds. Soles4Souls
hometown is Nashville, TN and when
the floodwaters from the Cumberland
River ruined numerous homes in May
of 2010, the organization sprung to
action here in the United States.
Soles4Soles not only distributed
85,000 pairs of shoes to Nashville
residents but also clothing and
water to those people whose
possessions had been lost from that
natural disaster.
Our agency will be collecting new or
'gently worn' footwear and/or
donations to make a tangible
difference through the gift of
shoes. Every donation will support
the Souls4Soles initiative to
distribute shoes to those in need.
We will be holding our shoe drive
between July 25th 2011 and August
22nd, 2011. Donations can be made
Monday-Friday from 7:30AM-5PM.
For more information regarding
Soles4Soles their website is:
http://www.soles4souls.org/
For more information regarding our
shoe drive please contact Cheryl
Kozuchowski from our agency at
either 978-465-5301 or
Cheryl@arthurpage.com.
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