Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Hargrove After Miami Shoe-Spill, Nashville Charity Gives Back
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:15 PM
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Remember back in early January when a Nashville charity called Soles4Souls took thousands of shoes inexplicably littering Miami's Palmetto Expressway and shipped 'em to needy folks in Haiti?
Founder Wayne Elsey plans on paying it forward to the Magic City for its highway cor-shoe-copia by providing fresh treads to the city's less-than-fortunate. Today Soles4Souls handed out 1,000 pairs--the first phase in a plan to distribute 10,000 pairs to the homeless in the Miami area.
Soles4Souls first made national headlines when thousands of athletic shoes, sandals and winter boots covered the Palmetto Expressway, blocking traffic for hours. In an odd coincidence, Nashville-based Correction Corporation of America organized the clean-up, and Elsey had the shoes shipped to hurricane-wracked Haiti. The incident was broadcast across the major cable news networks, raising the profile of Nashville's little charity.
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