3.22.07
Greetings All,
Wow, what a blessing! We're excited to announce the success of our first 2007 "SHOES 2 SHARE" school shoe drive held in February.
Greetings All,
Wow, what a blessing! We're excited to announce the success of our first 2007 "SHOES 2 SHARE" school shoe drive held in February.
Our thanks go out to Marcia, a parent from our boys travel baseball team. Marcia led an enthusiastic group of school staff and students at Bay View Elementary School located in Cecil County, MD. Over 500 hundred "new & like new shoes" were picked up by S2S volunteers. Also in MD, Chesapeake City Elementary principal Tom Duffy has given his students a 3rd marking period challenge. For every student who shows improvement in their effort, grades & attendance, Principal Duffy has pledged $1 to S2S.
Just this week, the News Journal (Wilmington, DE) wrote a wonderful article about my husbands retirement from coaching softball at Caravel Academy. The story featured Shoes 2 Share and it's mission. The enthusiastic response, from the community at large, has been just incredible! We are just amazed at the amount of emails, web-hits & phone calls in the last two days. We have even been contacted, off our website from folks around the United States - Maine, Illinois, Oregon, Conneticut, New Hampshire, Texas, Arizona & Florida being the most recent. These individuals & groups are eager and excited to be a part of SHOES 2 SHARE and it's efforts to meet the needs of children & their families in great need.
As I write this letter we are preparing for our first purchase of an S2S delivery/pickup shoe trailer. A friend of ours, in the moving business, is helping us to make educated decisions on choosing boxes/containers to collect & ship. We're also in the process of making contact with a new direct shipping lane out of The Port of Wilmington to the country of Haiti.
So many things are falling in place, yet there's still so many more exciting things to do. Our benefactor list has continued to grow and we are discussing future "shoe drops" depending on the amount of donations we receive. No doubt these will be numerous thanks to all the folks willing to help us above and beyond what we ever expected! We've also been presented with new opportunities in other countries for the future.
The family of SHOES 2 SHARE would like to ask for your continued support and prayer in our endeavor to help those that would otherwise be forgotten. You can read more about who we are, and what we do, along with our mission statement on our website http://www.shoes2share.com/
Joyfully in His Service,
Rhonda Wampler & Family
Just this week, the News Journal (Wilmington, DE) wrote a wonderful article about my husbands retirement from coaching softball at Caravel Academy. The story featured Shoes 2 Share and it's mission. The enthusiastic response, from the community at large, has been just incredible! We are just amazed at the amount of emails, web-hits & phone calls in the last two days. We have even been contacted, off our website from folks around the United States - Maine, Illinois, Oregon, Conneticut, New Hampshire, Texas, Arizona & Florida being the most recent. These individuals & groups are eager and excited to be a part of SHOES 2 SHARE and it's efforts to meet the needs of children & their families in great need.
As I write this letter we are preparing for our first purchase of an S2S delivery/pickup shoe trailer. A friend of ours, in the moving business, is helping us to make educated decisions on choosing boxes/containers to collect & ship. We're also in the process of making contact with a new direct shipping lane out of The Port of Wilmington to the country of Haiti.
So many things are falling in place, yet there's still so many more exciting things to do. Our benefactor list has continued to grow and we are discussing future "shoe drops" depending on the amount of donations we receive. No doubt these will be numerous thanks to all the folks willing to help us above and beyond what we ever expected! We've also been presented with new opportunities in other countries for the future.
The family of SHOES 2 SHARE would like to ask for your continued support and prayer in our endeavor to help those that would otherwise be forgotten. You can read more about who we are, and what we do, along with our mission statement on our website http://www.shoes2share.com/
Joyfully in His Service,
Rhonda Wampler & Family
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