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Worldview 10/22/2009
Global Activism: Share Your Soles Celebrates Ten Years
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Share Your Soles distributes shoes around the world
One of our earliest guests on our
Global Activism
series was Mona Purdy from
Share your Soles.
They get gentley used shoes from drives and drop boxes and then deliver them to people who need them all over the world. In ten years they’ve delivered 900,000 pairs of shoes. It’s hard even for Mona to believe the journey that ensued after a simple gesture.
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