During the month of February, if you will donate a new pair of kids’ shoes to be sent to Romania, Ukazoo Books will give you a free used book. Ukazoo Books will be collecting shoes for Remember the Children as they work on their 10,000 Shoes for Romania drive. You can watch updates at www.10000pairsofshoes.com or you can follow on Facebook at 10,000 pairs of shoes.
It started with pictures on Facebook by Remember the Children’s President Andy Baker. Andy had pictures of his latest trip to Romania, including smiling kids that were given Christmas presents. One of the photos had a boy holding his wrapped gift, layered in clothes, no coats, standing in the snow in flip flops, with Andy’s comment “We need to take shoes next year!”
Jim Street saw the pictures and sent Andy an Instant Message (copied from his blog here)
Me: “Flip flops in the snow?”
Andy: “Shoes we gave them last summer.”
Me: “That’s all they have?”
Andy: “I am more bothered by the children who have no shoes at all.”
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It seemed like a simple way to help. So please, trade a pair of shoes for a book at Ukazoo. Such a small thing to do that can make a great impact on someone else. Bring in any pair of new children shoes to Ukazoo Books and we will give you any used book for free; that is about 100,000 books to choose from (does not include collectibles). Thank you for helping.