notes: SOURCE: http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2010/05/03/daily16.html Nashville-based Soles4Souls, which usually provides footwear to people in poverty-stricken countries, will deliver 20,000 pairs of shoes and work boots to area flood victims. Some are being donated directly, but others will be donated through local agencies, including the Old Hickory Community Shelter at 1050 Hadley Avenue in Old Hickory. CEO Wayne Elsey says people can volunteer and find out more about the distributions by going to www.giveshoes.org. ----------------------------------- Shoe People Helping the World�: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World� Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 ------------------------------------------------------- GREENSBURG, Kan. and NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 9 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- Soles4Souls(TM) Inc., the international shoe charity dedicated to providing free footwear to needy people around the world, announced today that they are sending 4,000 pairs of shoes to residents in and around Greensburg, Kansas. The shoes are being sent to assist the victims of the recent tornado that killed 11 people and destroyed about 95% of the town. "The whole town was just torn to shreds," said Paul Wilson, President of the Outreach Division. "Many people are displaced and the area is shut down completely to outside groups, but by Thursday we will be operating in full force and delivering 4,000 pairs of shoes," he said. The footwear charity will be supplying work boots so that residents may return to their homes and businesses to gather any belongings that are salvageable. Soles4Souls is also giving a variety of shoes to men, women and children to replace footwear that was lost in the category F5 storm. "We want to thank Greg Augustine of Brown Shoe Fit Company, who has been instrumental in helping to set up a major distribution point at Barclay College," said Wilson. "Other agencies such as FEMA, The Red Cross and the Salvation Army are also working from the same area, and Greg coordinated a volunteer team to work alongside volunteers from Operation Compassion, who will be in the area for months," he said. Soles4Souls will remain present in Kansas until all known needs have been met, according to Wilson. For more information on how you can help with the shoe drive, visit http://www.soles4souls.org or call 866-521-SHOE. -> SOURCE: http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2010/05/03/daily16.html Nashville-based Soles4Souls, which usually provides footwear to people in poverty-stricken countries, will deliver 20,000 pairs of shoes and work boots to area flood victims. Some are being donated directly, but others will be donated through local agencies, including the Old Hickory Community Shelter at 1050 Hadley Avenue in Old Hickory. CEO Wayne Elsey says people can volunteer and find out more about the distributions by going to www.giveshoes.org. ----------------------------------- Shoe People Helping the World�: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World� Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119
cat_notes: -> Removed old notes 5/5/10 LTel: GREENSBURG, Kan. and NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 9 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- Soles4Souls(TM) Inc., the international shoe charity dedicated to providing free footwear to needy people around the world, announced today that they are sending 4,000 pairs of shoes to residents in and around Greensburg, Kansas. The shoes are being sent to assist the victims of the recent tornado that killed 11 people and destroyed about 95% of the town. "The whole town was just torn to shreds," said Paul Wilson, President of the Outreach Division. "Many people are displaced and the area is shut down completely to outside groups, but by Thursday we will be operating in full force and delivering 4,000 pairs of shoes," he said. The footwear charity will be supplying work boots so that residents may return to their homes and businesses to gather any belongings that are salvageable. Soles4Souls is also giving a variety of shoes to men, women and children to replace footwear that was lost in the category F5 storm. "We want to thank Greg Augustine of Brown Shoe Fit Company, who has been instrumental in helping to set up a major distribution point at Barclay College," said Wilson. "Other agencies such as FEMA, The Red Cross and the Salvation Army are also working from the same area, and Greg coordinated a volunteer team to work alongside volunteers from Operation Compassion, who will be in the area for months," he said. Soles4Souls will remain present in Kansas until all known needs have been met, according to Wilson. For more information on how you can help with the shoe drive, visit http://www.soles4souls.org or call 866-521-SHOE.

notes: Shoe People Helping the World™: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World™ Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 ------------------------------------------------------- GREENSBURG, Kan. and NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 9 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- Soles4Souls(TM) Inc., the international shoe charity dedicated to providing free footwear to needy people around the world, announced today that they are sending 4,000 pairs of shoes to residents in and around Greensburg, Kansas. The shoes are being sent to assist the victims of the recent tornado that killed 11 people and destroyed about 95% of the town. "The whole town was just torn to shreds," said Paul Wilson, President of the Outreach Division. "Many people are displaced and the area is shut down completely to outside groups, but by Thursday we will be operating in full force and delivering 4,000 pairs of shoes," he said. The footwear charity will be supplying work boots so that residents may return to their homes and businesses to gather any belongings that are salvageable. Soles4Souls is also giving a variety of shoes to men, women and children to replace footwear that was lost in the category F5 storm. "We want to thank Greg Augustine of Brown Shoe Fit Company, who has been instrumental in helping to set up a major distribution point at Barclay College," said Wilson. "Other agencies such as FEMA, The Red Cross and the Salvation Army are also working from the same area, and Greg coordinated a volunteer team to work alongside volunteers from Operation Compassion, who will be in the area for months," he said. Soles4Souls will remain present in Kansas until all known needs have been met, according to Wilson. For more information on how you can help with the shoe drive, visit http://www.soles4souls.org or call 866-521-SHOE. -> SOURCE: http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2010/05/03/daily16.html Nashville-based Soles4Souls, which usually provides footwear to people in poverty-stricken countries, will deliver 20,000 pairs of shoes and work boots to area flood victims. Some are being donated directly, but others will be donated through local agencies, including the Old Hickory Community Shelter at 1050 Hadley Avenue in Old Hickory. CEO Wayne Elsey says people can volunteer and find out more about the distributions by going to www.giveshoes.org. ----------------------------------- Shoe People Helping the World�: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World� Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 ------------------------------------------------------- GREENSBURG, Kan. and NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 9 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- Soles4Souls(TM) Inc., the international shoe charity dedicated to providing free footwear to needy people around the world, announced today that they are sending 4,000 pairs of shoes to residents in and around Greensburg, Kansas. The shoes are being sent to assist the victims of the recent tornado that killed 11 people and destroyed about 95% of the town. "The whole town was just torn to shreds," said Paul Wilson, President of the Outreach Division. "Many people are displaced and the area is shut down completely to outside groups, but by Thursday we will be operating in full force and delivering 4,000 pairs of shoes," he said. The footwear charity will be supplying work boots so that residents may return to their homes and businesses to gather any belongings that are salvageable. Soles4Souls is also giving a variety of shoes to men, women and children to replace footwear that was lost in the category F5 storm. "We want to thank Greg Augustine of Brown Shoe Fit Company, who has been instrumental in helping to set up a major distribution point at Barclay College," said Wilson. "Other agencies such as FEMA, The Red Cross and the Salvation Army are also working from the same area, and Greg coordinated a volunteer team to work alongside volunteers from Operation Compassion, who will be in the area for months," he said. Soles4Souls will remain present in Kansas until all known needs have been met, according to Wilson. For more information on how you can help with the shoe drive, visit http://www.soles4souls.org or call 866-521-SHOE.
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notes: Shoe People Helping the World™: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World™ Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 -> Shoe People Helping the World™: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World™ Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 ------------------------------------------------------- GREENSBURG, Kan. and NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 9 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- Soles4Souls(TM) Inc., the international shoe charity dedicated to providing free footwear to needy people around the world, announced today that they are sending 4,000 pairs of shoes to residents in and around Greensburg, Kansas. The shoes are being sent to assist the victims of the recent tornado that killed 11 people and destroyed about 95% of the town. "The whole town was just torn to shreds," said Paul Wilson, President of the Outreach Division. "Many people are displaced and the area is shut down completely to outside groups, but by Thursday we will be operating in full force and delivering 4,000 pairs of shoes," he said. The footwear charity will be supplying work boots so that residents may return to their homes and businesses to gather any belongings that are salvageable. Soles4Souls is also giving a variety of shoes to men, women and children to replace footwear that was lost in the category F5 storm. "We want to thank Greg Augustine of Brown Shoe Fit Company, who has been instrumental in helping to set up a major distribution point at Barclay College," said Wilson. "Other agencies such as FEMA, The Red Cross and the Salvation Army are also working from the same area, and Greg coordinated a volunteer team to work alongside volunteers from Operation Compassion, who will be in the area for months," he said. Soles4Souls will remain present in Kansas until all known needs have been met, according to Wilson. For more information on how you can help with the shoe drive, visit http://www.soles4souls.org or call 866-521-SHOE.
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notes: Shoe People Helping the World™: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World™ Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 -> Shoe People Helping the World™: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World™ Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119

notes: Shoe People Helping the World™: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. -> Shoe People Helping the World™: Why We Do What We Do We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted. You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference -- but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Shoe People Helping the World™ Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)3 recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 900,000 pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org, with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear. How & Where We Operate: The first region serviced by the Soles4Souls team was the entire region affected by the Asian tsunami on December 26th, 2004. By the third week of January 2005, the team had dispensed product to Indonesia, in conjunction with the Indonesian ambassador based in Washington, D.C. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, the team was ready to put its experience into action. It created a website called KatrinaShoes.org and solicited footwear donations from company contacts and word-of-mouth. The response was overwhelming for our fledgling charity, and we called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived. Since the formal incorporation of Soles4Souls as a 501(c)(3) charity on October 25th, 2006, our organization has served people by delivering millions of pairs of shoes to the following countries: The United States Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Guatemala Honduras The Dominican Republic Haiti Brazil Uganda Sudan Romania We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, but our organization's primary distribution center is based in Wadley, Alabama. New and used footwear is received from across locations in North America, where it is inspected for suitability, sorted by gender and size, packaged into common Soles4Souls boxes, and shrink-wrapped together onto a shipping pallet. There the footwear awaits distribution to the first qualified charity or regional partner who expresses a need. Our Las Vegas warehouse makes it more economical for individual donors in the western half of North America to donate their shoes to the organization. A donor in Seattle, Washington, for example, would save about 22% by sending the shoes to Nevada instead of Alabama. Our warehouse in Las Vegas holds the shoes until enough pairs have been collected to fill a shipping container. At this point, the shoes are sent to Wadley where they are processed as usual. WAREHOUSE FACILITIES: Primary Warehouse Facility: Soles4Souls, Inc. 315 Airport Road Roanoke, AL 36274 Soles4Souls, Inc. Foreign Trade Zone #89 6620 Escondido Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89119