Soles4Souls mourns the loss of our CFO and long-time staff member, Robert Adams-Ghee.

See our tribute to him here.

Soles4Souls mourns the loss of our CFO and long-time staff member, Robert Adams-Ghee.

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Case Study: Skipwith Academy Soles4Souls Donation Bin Site

Skipwith Academy has chosen to partner with Soles4Souls as a long-term service learning and volunteer opportunity for our students, teachers, and management team. As educators, we understand the importance of leading by example as well as the importance of instilling qualities like empathy and compassion in our children at a young age. Shoes are a […]

A Full Circle Moment in Transnistria

Lena Ahremtseva was raised in a Transnistrian orphanage with 200 other children from birth through the age of 16.   “Our days were all alike,” said Lena. “We would wake up, go to classes held there, and then we had free time for a couple of hours, but we could not leave the grounds. Then […]

Soles4Souls Expands International Collection Efforts

The shoe and clothing donations that Soles4Souls receives every day help create opportunities for what the World Bank estimates to currently be 767 million people living on less than $1.90 a day. The more product we receive, the more lives Soles4Souls is able to impact. Furthermore, our donation sites are more accessible than ever. Soles4Souls […]

World Refugee Day

In the sixty seconds it will take you to read this, 20 more people will leave their homes to escape war, persecution or terror.   Soles4Souls joins in celebrating World Refugee Day for the more than 68 million people displaced by violence. Refugees are among the most vulnerable groups in the world. Access to shoes […]

Helping is Healing

Distributing shoes to some of the world’s poorest communities is impactful in many ways. There’s of course, the gift itself, which keeps children healthy and in school. But just like pebbles dropped in still water create waves well beyond their point of impact, the people who come together to make them possible produce unexpected ripples […]

Providing New Shoes, Protection and Hope at a Dump in Guatemala

Those who help us distribute the gift of shoes around the world work hard to understand the concept of “extreme poverty”. But nothing can prepare them to face the harsh realities of life on less than $1.90/day. In places like Chiquimula, Guatemala, these realities can include surviving in a makeshift community atop the city dump. […]

Building Blocks

The following is the story of Ginette Derisier from Haiti, one of many individuals profiled in the forthcoming book, Shoestrings: How Your Donated Shoes and Clothes Help People Pull Themselves Out of Poverty, by Soles4Souls President and CEO Buddy Teaster. GETTING AHEAD IN HAITI ISN’T EASY Not long ago, Ginette Derisier and her family were […]

Donating Shoes is Now Easier than Ever!

When you clean out your closet and donate your gently worn shoes to Soles4Souls, you are helping to create meaningful opportunities for people in need all over the world. We utilize gently-worn shoes and clothing as a resource for individuals to start and sustain a small business of their own in places where job opportunities […]

K•Swiss Gives Back to Soles4Souls During Play Tennis Month!

K•Swiss, the fastest growing tennis footwear brand in the United States specialty channel, has partnered with Soles4Souls in honor of Play Tennis Month.   For each Ultrashot shoe sold, $5.00 will be donated to Soles4Souls, which could help us provide five new pairs of shoes to people in need! During the campaign, the Ultrashot shoes are […]