Hey everyone and welcome to the official JUNGLE FITNESS Orange County Personal Trainer Blog! Today is Talk Show Tuesday, we’re going over our charity event with Soles4Souls which lasted a little over a month long. We collected 98 shoes. 49 pairs of shoes! These shoes will be shipped to Haiti and Chile and will be given to those who are in more of need than we are! A special thank you to all Jungle Fitness Clients and other clients at our Jungle Fitness Training Facility for donating your used, like new and even brand new shoes! We along with all the people from Soles for Souls appreciate it!
What is Soles4Souls?
Soles4Souls has a simple concept: we get shoes and give them away.
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami that hit Southeast Asia, Wayne Elsey, the Founder and CEO of Soles4Souls® Inc., felt compelled to do something. Like many of us, he did not know what to do. He was at home one night, watching TV and he saw a picture of a single shoe washing up on the beach. That triggered a few calls to some other executives in the footwear industry and the subsequent donation of a quarter of a million shoes to victims in the devastated countries.
A year later when Katrina hit, Wayne called the same group of friends, and they sent over a million pairs of shoes down to the gulf coast communities affected by the hurricane. In all honesty, he admits that he did not expect such an immediate and successful turnout. This left him wondering, why not start a non-profit and do this all the time? One year later, Soles4Souls was formally created.
It has been that simple: changing the world one pair at a time.
Soles4Souls receives large donations from footwear companies, retailers, churches, nonprofit ministries, civic groups, schools, and individuals and saw that this could become a full time organization. That’s why Soles4Souls was created – to facilitate the donations from these groups to the people who desperately need footwear.
(quoted from: soles4souls.org)
How do you get started?
You can help us sponsor a shoe drive by volunteering to collect and package shoes from your area. To get started, please determine the dates of your drive and how many drop off locations will you have and we will send collection boxes and brochures. You will only need one box per location, as the boxes we provide are for collection only. Shoes should be shipped using appropriate shipping vessels. Additionally, we recommend collecting $1.00 per pair to help offset the fees of shipping the shoes to our warehouse. Or if it more reasonable, you can drop the shoes off at one of our warehouses.
Please allow at least two weeks notification before you start your shoe drive.
(quoted from: soles4souls.org)
Soles4Souls: Project Haiti Relief
Soles4Souls is mounting a massive response of emergency relief to the victims of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. 3 million people are directly affected by the damage. Untold thousands are likely dead, and tens of thousands are injured. Probably hundreds of thousands have lost their homes and most of their possessions.
Staggering Facts
- An estimated 200,000 dead
- Estimated 250,000 injured
- 1.5 million left homeless
Why shoes are critical
People are in immediate need of the most basic necessities, like food, water, AND SHOES. Soles4Souls is working with trusted partners to provide one million pairs of new boots and shoes to help survivors locate others trapped in the rubble and begin the rebuilding process. As you can imagine, the amount of broken glass, twisted metal and raw sewage is staggering. We will rush this protective footwear to them as quickly as possible.
In fact, we are partnering with others to send a shipment of 30 container loads of emergency supplies, including:
New boots and shoes
Tents
Blankets
Duffle Bags
Food & Water
Our charity of Soles4Souls is over, yet when one ends, another one starts. Anything helps, start donating today! If you do not belong to a non-profit organization, I highly recommend and suggest that you become a member at one! It’s an awesome feeling giving back to those who need it more than we do especially when you do not even know those individuals! So if you want to get started and involved in Soles for Souls all you have to do to get started is:
1. Dig in your closet and garage for old or unused shoes you haven’t worn or do not desire to wear anymore.
2. Go online to Soles for Souls and find a location near you that is collecting shoes.
This is Jon Jung of the Jungle and I’m out…
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