Archive for the 'Volunteering' Category

ExxonMobil Interns Collect, Sort Shoes for Orphans

By Brittany Black
Buckner International
MESQUITE, Texas – Bridget Bennett was asked to donate five pairs of shoes for orphans as part of her service project for the ExxonMobil Community Summer Job Program, but she managed to collect 44.
“I thought, ‘Let’s get as many as possible,’” Bennett said. “I cleared out [...]

By Andrew Crowson

The spicy smell of Ethiopia is hard to put a finger on. A mixture of the spices used on the food, the smell of the people, and the omnipresent diesel fumes are the most identifiable elements in the scent that mixed with the soft rays of sunlight to awaken me daily. My hotel [...]

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 [...]