If you are like me, you go through a lot of running shoes. Well, if you are really like me, you go through a lot of shoes in general, but that‘s beside the point. I have a little system: I buy a new pair of running shoes and use them for work, then slowly they make their way to my gym. As they go out of style get increasingly torn up, they turn into my outside shoes, for running and hiking, and I buy a new pair. As this new pair gets less so fresh and so clean-clean, I start to wear those outside and the others get pushed to the back of my closet. There they sit, for the rest of eternity, plotting their revenge with that box of scrap booking supplies I thought were a good idea at the time.

If you’ve got a shoe grave yard like mine, why not use those shoes to do a little good? Consider sending your old kicks to Shoe4Africa.org. The organization takes your old, gently used running shoes and delivers them to runners in Africa. The organization has now branched out into training camps, athletic scholarships and sponsored races, for athletes and children alike.

Most of these Africans, who’s lives and families have been ravaged by AIDS, have never owned a pair a shoes. The AIDS pandemic has left more than 14 million children orphaned: 92% of them live in Africa, with no one to provide for them. Instead of letting your old shoes collect dust, let them change a life.

Post from: EveryJoe

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