how to 'freight-raise'?

The shoes were starting to 'tip-toe' (or rather 'race') through the doors! Students at Flinders University School of Nursing and Midwifery had taken up the challenge in the last two weeks of the semester and pairs of shoes were starting to come from all directions. They were talking to friends who were talking to friends and the staff of the nursing skills laboratory were kindly and patiently tucking the shoes away for me to collect each time i was up at the university.

it seems that fright is the biggest challenge for all those who tried this type of venture. we have been put in touch with a church mission organisation that freighted shoes collected in new south wales but the USA groups do theirs, obviously, from their side of the world.

we have also been connected with an adelaide university lecturer who i am told freights text books to kenya and who may have some tips regarding this issue/challenge! Certainly, at the outset of this project we had no idea the quantities we would be dealing and the generosity that has been shown by complete strangers to the cause!

Henry David Thoreau said" We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success".

And so leap we have!

...and as of today i can say that this blog has now been accessed from as far away as San Diego USA, Kiryu Japan and Padang City Indonesia!!!!!!