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Jillian Roberts, a ninth-grader who runs track and cross country in Miami, sits with some of the roughly 100 shoes she collected this spring. It was Jillian's first shoe drive and she did a great job. Jillian put up boxes at three stores in the Miami area; the New Balance store at 8888 SW 136 Street; Footworks at 5724 Sunset Drive in South Miami, and the local JCC at 11155 SW 112th Ave.

"I really enjoy collecting shoes, and already feel like I have accomplished so much," Jillian wrote us.

Indeed she did, and her shoes went on several shipments, including our first shipment to Craiova, Romania. Olympic marathoner Luminita Talpos and her husband, Daniel, brought the shoes over to a school in Craiova. (watch for photos). The rest of the shoes went to Haiti and Honduras ... Congratulations to Jillian for her good work. We hope to continue working with her in the future.

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"GREAT SHOE-IN" BREAKS RECORD

Here is what Santa Rosa, Calif., journalist Chris Smith wrote about the Great Shoe-In Sendoff Celebration last weekend:

SHOE-IN: That was some scene in the parking lot of the new hillside Shomrei Torah temple Saturday. Dozens of kids from the Santa Rosa congregation's Jewish School danced and sang alongside a colossal heap of used (and a few new) shoes. The students had hoped to collect a few hundred pairs for people in need. But their quest caught on, and soon people all over town were collecting shoes too. Saturday's celebration was a send-off for 2,383 pairs. Some will go to homeless people, and most will be sanitized and shipped to children and adults in Africa. Definitely worth dancing about.

Will post photos later. Many thanks to the enthusiasm and competence that Barbara has brought to the project. The old record was set by Eric and his high school cross country buddies in ohio in 2006, roughly 1,800 pairs.
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El Salvador Race and Shoe Distribution

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A little girl waits with her mother to start her first race. During a mission to San Salvador in March, One World Running volunteers Ana Weir, Mike Dwyer, and Mike Sandrock distributed shoes and organized a series of youth races.

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Shawnee Mission Northwest Key Club

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The Key Club collected over 1300 pairs of shoes during a winter drive in 2008 and also provided financial assistance for shipping the shoes. Some of the shoes are on their way to Haiti and Honduras.

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Shawnee Mission Nortwest Key Club Shoe Collection

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Shawnee Mission Northwest Key Club collected shoes for One World Running. At the girls’ and boys’ basketball games the coaches donated their shoes and coached barefoot.

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