October 23rd, 2010 Giveaway

On the fourth Saturday of every October, National Make A Difference Day, the Goodie Two Shoes Foundation proudly hosts its annual cornerstone event, the Goodie Two Shoes Giveaway.

Over 2,000 disadvantaged children from more than a dozen Southern Nevada Boys & Girls Clubs will be bussed to the Giveaway location, where retail professionals will size their feet and Goodie Two Shoes community volunteers will assist them in selecting any pair of shoes of their choice, from our large stock of traveling inventory. In addition, the children age 5 to 17, will receive socks, backpacks, school supplies, a commemorative t-shirt, lunch and more.

Some of the children we assist have NEVER had a new pair of shoes of their own much less been given the opportunity and empowerment to make an unrestrained choice. Our program really makes a difference to children who don't have a single properly fitting pair of shoes to call their own, and children who stuff paper towels in the toes to make the over-sized pair they have wearable, and children who take out the laces and yank out the tongue so that their growing feet can still be stuffed inside, and children who miss school because they share a single pair of shoes with a sister AND a cousin. Sound ridiculous? It's not and it happens right here in Las Vegas every single day.