Boston
The world has been turned upside down. Boston was a virtual marathon this year for the first time ever. Although we did not have any official runners in the charity program, we were glad that one of our runners,...
COVID up date in Kenya
With approximately six million COVID cases in the USA (pop. 328-million), it must be said Kenya (pop. 50-million), with 33,000 COVID cases must be doing something right. Great job by the Kenyan Ministry of Health!
Isabelle Turner
” Recent NYU graduate and student-athlete Isabelle Turner has turned her attention to marathon running, specifically to help raise money for Shoe4Africa, an organization focusing on health, education, and empowerment in Africa. “I love to find ways to give back...
Getting better!
Great news that one of our most severe burns patients is now out and about up in her her home county of Turkana. The little girl, who we’ll call ‘Lucy’ was admitted to us with terrible burns after she...
The Half marathon- March 15th 2020 -update
From the NYRR; Dear Runners, At New York Road Runners, the welfare of our running community is always our top priority. Due to the rapidly developing coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the NYC Half, scheduled for Sunday, March 15, and the accompanying...
Donor Spotlight
Donor Spotlight. In 2006, Juli Anne was fulfilling a dream; to run the New York City Marathon. The race promo said as much: ‘One race, 37,000 stories’. Seven years before, Juli was diagnosed with cancer. It is hard enough to run 26.2...
Happy Holidays from Shoe4Africa
As usual we held a Christmas Party at the Shoe4Africa Children’s Hospital on the 24th of December. Cakes, gifts, food, drinks…. we held a party for the kids. Thanks to KenKnit who brought 200 cartons of Milk, thanks to...
Government honor Mary!
Great article in Tuko talking of the Kenyan Government giving Mary Keitany its highest civilian honor. And, as the article nicely points out, our foundation honored Mary in 2018 as we opened the Mary Keitany Shoe4Africa School. And she...
Thank you letters!
Our patients, at the Shoe4Africa Hospital, were very busy before the #nycmarathon making Thank you cards to give to our runners, who raised funds for us! Thank you to Team Shoe4Africa runners!
