doing our homework

it was certainly looking like the project was a 'goer'.

One amazing aspect of the world wide web is its capacity to link people from all over the globe who have never met but have similar interests and aspirations. As we trawled the www, we came in contact with all sorts of projects, stories of success, courage, disappointments, frustrations and joy regarding international initiatives and adventures.

We discovered that a university in Utah, USA and a school in NSW, Australia had had great success with similar projects and a website that described its activities regarding shoe projects.

Emails exchanged between Utah, NSW and Adelaide showed that like minded individuals and groups were doing great things. The stand out feature , however, was that the contacts for both projects we accessed indicated that their role had been the collecting of shoes only, and did not include the arrrangements for transport, freight or other associated activities. Both projects were supported by not-for-profit charity organisations, making the role of the collectors exquisitely simple. Hmmm.

I am having trouble hyper linking to the actual websites but you may find these sites interesting:

http://www.greeneyesinafrica.org

http://www.soles4souls.org

http://www.shoesfororphansouls.org