Category: Soles4Souls

Inspired by Kindness

On September 26, Maya Reiter will be hosting a no-contact drive-thru shoe drive as she gets closer to her 25k goal. For nearly two years, the teen and her mom, Deanna have been collecting shoes in Ontario, Canada, and they’re only 7,000 pairs short of their goal.   Maya and Deanna were inspired after watching […]

Thanking our Healthcare Workers in Singapore

Last year, after years of growth and outreach in Singapore, Soles4Souls opened its first warehouse there. Having a presence there has allowed us to directly receive donations from our international partners. Bata, one of the world’s leading shoemakers and a long-time partner of Soles4Souls, has been instrumental in allowing us to serve the region. Recently, […]

Boy Scout Collects Over 1,400 Shoes for Shoe Drive

If there’s one thing a global pandemic hasn’t stopped, it’s our amazing volunteers hosting shoe drives around the country. Even with having to minimize social interactions, our volunteers have stepped up in collecting shoes– whether that means handing out flyers and collection bags or utilizing drop-off boxes. One of those volunteers, 14-year-old Adam Benson of […]

Meaningful Deposits

Fifteen years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, it displaced over a million people. For one of them, Deidra C. Thomas-Murray, it was the beginning of a journey she never could have imagined experiencing firsthand. A mother of three daughters, and a foster parent, Deidra and her family of 15 were left homeless, moving […]

A Community Drive

When Judy Green, President of CrossRidge Women’s Club in Glen Allen, Virginia, initially heard about Soles4Souls, she was excited about how she could get all her members involved. But when COVID-19 prompted stay-at-home orders, her initial vision for doing a shoe drive solely within the club changed.    “At the beginning of quarantine, we talked […]

Join our Shoe Crew!

If there’s anything our volunteers have proven this year, it’s that they can be innovative with the current world environment, and still have successful shoe drives. Hosts of shoe drives have set up no-contact drop-off sites and engaged their communities online in ways to participate. Among the most impressive of our volunteers during this time, […]

Supply Chain Leader Moves Over 100,000 Shoes

When other companies around the world share our core beliefs in serving others through sustainable solutions, we find a way to partner with them. XPO Logistics, a leading global provider of supply chain solutions, immediately wanted to know how they could help further our mission. And recently, they did just that, by shipping four ocean containers […]

Taking Care of Our Partners

For years, Soles4Souls has been able to provide opportunities for women in countries like Haiti and Honduras to make a sustainable income and support their families and communities. And if it weren’t for our in-country partners, like Raul, Sam and Paul, none of it would be possible. Our partners are the gateway to our entrepreneurs– […]

A Shoe Drive Tradition

When Elliott Zugel was eight years old, she was watching Disney Channel and saw a commercial about collecting shoes. The commercial wasn’t about Soles4Souls or any company for that matter, but it sparked an idea.   After talking with her parents, Elliott decided she wanted to start her own shoe drive, and through their research– […]

Shoes for Safety

Thirty years ago, the idea to preserve a single resident occupancy (SRO) building in Los Angeles, sparked a mission. Years later, that mission grew into 25 more buildings with 1,787 units — all for the purpose of housing a very specific demographic– those who have faced chronic homelessness. Across Los Angeles County, 60,000 people are homeless, and […]