Quote of the Week: A Holiday Message


I wish all the readers of this blog a very Happy Holiday season. Wherever you are and whatever holiday you celebrate, I hope that these are joyous times for you and those you love. 


For many, the holidays are a time of gift giving. So rather than a quote, I thought I'd make a suggestion: 

Why not give away a pair running shoes to someone in need? 

They don't even have to be new shoes. Here's a list of organizations that take used shoes and put them to good use.



Soles4Souls
Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear both new and used to those in need around the world. Soles4Souls has coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ike, netting over 1 Million pairs donated for these disasters.

Send your old running shoes to:
Alabama (Primary Warehouse Facility)
Soles4Souls, Inc.
315 Airport Road
Roanoke, AL 36274

Tennessee
Soles4Souls, Inc.
619 Old Hickory Blvd.
Old Hickory, TN 37138

Nevada
Soles4Souls, Inc.
Foreign Trade Zone #89
6620 Escondido Street
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119

For more information, go to www.soles4souls.org, or e-mail info@giveshoes.org.

Hope Runs
Hope Runs is a non-profit group working in Kenya and Tanzania, using athletics, education, and social entrepreneurship to empower AIDS orphans. They accept donations, including running shoes.

Visit www.hoperuns.org for details.

Shoe4Africa
Shoe4Africa is a charitable organization whose mission is "empowerment through sports and education, creating unique health initiatives, and promoting Aids awareness."

Note: All shoe donations from America must be sent via Airmail.

Send your old running shoes to:
Shoe4Africa
c/o Monicah Kiplagat
PO Box 6943
Eldoret, Kenya

Visit www.shoe4africa.org or e-mail info@shoe4africa.org for more information.

Nike Reuse-A-Shoe
Grinds your old running shoes into material that makes athletics and playground surfaces.

Send your old running shoes to:
Nike Recycling Center
c/o Reuse-A-Shoe
26755 SW 95th Ave.
Wilsonville, OR 97070

For more information about Nike Reuse-A-Shoe, go to: nikereuseashoe.com or call 800-344-6453.

One World Running
Since 1986, a group of runners in Boulder, Colorado, has collected, washed and sent to Third World countries new and "near-new" athletic shoes along with other athletic equipment.

For more information about One World Running, and what kind of shoes you can send to them, please visit the One World Running Blog or call (303) 473-1314 or (303) 828-4391.

The Shoe Bank
Founded in 1989, the Shoe Bank provides shoes for twenty thousand people every year - primarily children, both here and abroad.

Send your old running shoes to:
Michael Barringer
Shoe Bank
205 Becky Lane
Rockwall, TX 75087

For more information about the Shoe Bank, go to www.shoebank.org.

Heart and Sole
Provides new and gently used shoes to the poorest of the world's people. Since the project began in 1999, more than 6,000 pairs of shoes have been shipped around the world.

Send your old running shoes to:
Ann Cook
A314 East Fee Hall
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1316

For more information go to www.com.msu.edu or contact Ann at Ann.Cook@hc.msu.edu


Sole Responsibility
A non-profit organization formed by a group of runners in Ottawa, Canada who donate gently used running and walking shoes overseas.

Send your old running shoes to:
Sole Responsibility
83 Place Road,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1L 5B9

For more information, go to www.soleresponsibility.org.

Once again, Happy Holidays!
--Craig

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