1. Introduction to Shoe Aid
Mission Statement
Shoe Aid is a CIC (Community interest company) established to raise awareness and help the 300 million children worldwide who do not have the ability to obtain a pair of shoes, which are necessary for hygienic and health reasons, for work and school, due to the devastating ills of poverty. We believe that walking barefoot should be a choice, not a hardship.
Shoe Aid collects unwanted pairs of shoes and provide shoes for the shoeless.
We have an increasing number of collection points that allow members of the public to drop off shoes at a location near you.
Shoes can be taken to these collection points. We then take them to our sorting warehouse where they are assed and graded.
We do this to allow us to provide exactly what is requested by our partners such as the National Police Aid Convoys, Framework, Groundworks and many others.
Some shoes are unusable and too worn, one of our current projects is to then recycle these into the shoes components and then the material can then be re used and repurposed.
We form relationships with manufacturers, distributors and retail outlets that donate end of line returns and sample stock, this decreases waste and landfill.
When the shoes are collected we ask the donator how we may use the shoes. We can process the shoes in a number of ways. Sometime it is the preference of the donator that we send the shoes directly to a project. On other occasions we may be allowed to sell the shoes to generate income to cover our operational costs.
We are a community interest company which allows us to operate in a way that benefits local education, provides work experience through traineeships and apprenticeships via local learning and education providers.
Our aim to help by providing employment through enabling microenterprise, we do this by providing shoes and training people in customer service and providing them with a platform, for example a market stall and the profit is then shared between the stall holder and Shoe Aid.
We are here to promote the elevation for both local and global shoe poverty because we believe barefoot should be a choice.

2. What is Shoe Aid Shoe Aid was founded by Lee Todd in 2010.
He saw a shoe floating in the sea after the disaster in Tahiti and decided it was time to help.
With your help we now can help people both locally and globally.
Ask questions age relevant about how many pairs of shoes do you have and how many fit etc

3. We believe that walking barefoot should be a choice, not a hardship.
Mission Statement 
Shoe Aid is a community interest company established to raise awareness and help the 300 million children worldwide who do not have the ability to obtain a pair of shoes, which are necessary for hygiene and health reasons, for work and school, due to the devastating ills of poverty.
In some places having no shoes means no education.
Some people have to walk many miles to fetch supplies that they need to survive.
We believe that walking barefoot should be a choice, not a hardship.
More interaction with the children.

4. What we do.
Shoe Aid has collected tens of thousands of shoes for people in need. In partnership with The National Police Aid Convoy the shoes collected have benefited and helped improve the lives of people in the UK, Malawi, Gambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Russia, Albania, Pakistan, Ghana and Rwanda.

5. Explain the process donation, sorting shipping and delivery to the people that need the shoes.

6. You can help us by doing the following:
How can I help?
You can help us by doing the following:
Donate your gently worn shoes by dropping them off at school.
Donate your gently worn shoes by taking part in a shoe drive.
Telling your friends and family about us.
Get involved in one of our fund raising activities.
Ask children to bring shoes in on the agreed date with school. Ask for questions.