Big shout to Alex Wittenberg!

Alex raised $66 for us selling Lemonade!  Making him a definite Shoe4Africa Hero!!  Thanks Alex, you rock!

Thank you Clif Bar!!  If I do get from the shore of Africa, to the top of the Kilimanjaro mountain it will be fueled by Clif Bar's -- they sent me...

Congratulations to our superb team who ran the marathon for Shoe4Africa.  I am working soon on an Alumni page where we can document photos and stories etc.  A big thanks to Liz McColgan, an absolute running superstar, a role...

Meet Olive Oil, otherwise known as Oliver Hoffman, far right, here with his relay team at the Frankfurt Marathon.  Olive Oil is a regular to Kenya, in fact he was once seen on the back roads dragging a live...

Here's a map of Kenya, just so you can see Eldoret -- but the expanse of the hospital's outreach is to Southern Sudan, and to East...

Back in the summer I was talking with one of our Ambassadors, John Kelai, a marathon runner from Turkana.  "John, you have to win the marathon at this year's Commonwealth Games for us.  You see we had a Shoe4Africa...

Last week in the post a brown envelope from Kibera, Kenya. From a lady who sells tomatoes in the Nairobi slums. She makes 15 cents on average per day, 45-cents on a good day. She collected and...

Big thanks to Jim Crowley who put together a shoe drive at the regionals this past Sunday.  All athletes who used to finish in the top 50-spots used to get a T-Shirt... but this year, hanks to Jim's initiative,...

Here's Parker Smith just before making his school presentation about Shoe4Africa, and then sending THREE boxes of shoes over to Kenya!!  Parker is standing up and doing it!!  Thanks Parker, we really appreciate your help!

October 22, 2010 at 2:06 pm Toby Tanser read more