Archive for October, 2009

Women from the Junior League of Dallas sort shoes with children from Buckner’s after-school programs in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. After sorting shoes, they helped each child choose a pair for themselves.

By Analiz G. Schremmer
DALLAS, Texas — Thirty-seven new members of the Junior League of Dallas participated in a provisional project with Buckner International and Shoes [...]

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
(DALLAS, Texas) – Dallas Independent School District staff and personnel put the American proverb to practice May 9 when they gathered to ‘Walk in Mile in My Shoes’ and collect new athletic shoes for Dallas students and orphans around the world.
Staff collected 170 pairs of new shoes and 53 pairs of socks [...]

By Analiz González
Buckner International
(DALLAS, Texas) — A tornado that tore through an R.G. Barry Corporation shoe distribution center in San Angelo, Texas, brought the biggest Shoes for Orphan Souls donation ever to arrive at the Buckner Center for Humanitarian Aid in Dallas.
The shoes came to Buckner International’s Shoes for Orphan Souls when Alan Wilson, with [...]

By Vanessa Mosharaf
Buckner International
Buckner still needs volunteers to travel on upcoming Shoes for Orphan Souls trips or they may be cancelled, said George McCain, director of Buckner Missions.
“Hundreds of children may suffer because of it,” he said. Dozens of volunteers are still needed in order to make the trips to China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Honduras, Mexico, [...]

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
By Jordan Wilson
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
07/20/2008
(ST. PETERS, Missouri) — Kim Smith wants to lend a voice to orphaned children in the St. Louis area and throughout the world.
She also wants to give them shoes.
Smith has formed the St. Louis Christian Alliance for Orphans, a group made up of her church, Calvary in [...]