Wayne Elsey, Founder and CEO Soles4Souls, sent his newsletter out and it brings to mind all the poverty and need in Haiti right now. Everyone has their causes and if I could I would take them all. Rose and support many and whether for personal reasons or first hand experience with them want to...
The Value of Volunteers So Many Touched By the Gift of Shoes Great photos, updates, contests – Like Us! We’re on Twitter too! Why Choose Soles4Souls? We understand you have a choice when donating your unwanted footwear. From micro-enterprise and disaster support to tax and health benefits, check out some of the unique benefits...
As you who frequent Networking Witches know one of my passions is helping Haiti. It’s been almost two years since the earthquake. There is no nice way to put it. Hait is and has been a poor country. Many relief organizations responded quickly with life saving aid. The global response was overwhelming. Campaings...
While doing the review for flipflop wine I was introduced to Soles4Souls. I’m really impressed with a charity that gives at home as well as away. Soles4Souls collects new shoes to give relief to victims of abject suffering and collects used shoes to support micro-business efforts to eradicate poverty. Soles4Souls other two divisions, Clothes4Souls...
Not only are individual people depressed but so is the news, our government, and hell, almost everyone or thing I know. Did you see the Dow and Nadaq today? I try to stay out of politics here because everyone deserves their own opinion, but freaking Obama who was going to fix everything has made...
My head gets muddled when there are so many tragedies. I feel so lucky for each ach, each pain, for every bill, and of course for every blessing I have. The last two weeks are full of news from Haiti again. Haiti already a poor nation, is being hit with Cholera, thus adding insult...
Remember when the USA, or New Orleans to be exact was hit by hurricane Katrina? Remember the heart wrenching scenes? I do. I remember Anderson Cooper from CNN and Shepard Smith from Fox News reporting on the tragedy that soon turned to mayhem. There are people still displaced from those horrors. People who still...
I recently received the following information from The Simple Stencil and I think all too soon many of us have forgotten about the tribulations to Haiti and that this will be leaving the country devastated for years to come. If you are able to give this is a very worth while project. Please Consider...
Brittanie’s Thyme, is donating 5% of their online sales to Doctors Without Borders. For those of you unfamiliar with this worthy cause, let me explain a bit. Doctors Without Borders is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, Doctors With Out Borders provides aid in 60...
