Each year the Live Green Expo has organized a recycling collection event during its annual Expo. In 2009 more than 2,000 North Texans participated in a collection drive that included computers, TVs, books, shoes, eye glasses, etc. This year, the Expo has decided to collect just one item and we've partnered with The Shoe Bank to help launch a 6-12 month effort to collect shoes and distribute them to the earthquake survivors in Haiti.
Shoe Collection Instructions:
~ Very gently used/new shoes for children
~ Very gently used/new adult athletic shoes
~ No flip flops
~ No dress shoes
~ Tie laces or use rubber bands to keep the pairs together
Donate to Shoes for Haiti Now! by clicking here
Central Shoe Bank
Simply drop off your shoes at a local Shoes for Haiti drop or mail your donation to:
The Shoe Bank
205 Becky Lane
Rockwall, TX 75087
(972) 771-7658
* Please notify The Shoe Bank before mailing any large shipments.
TEXAS
Live Green Expo
April 17, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. ONLY
2000 E. Spring Creek Parkway - Plano Centre
Shoes for Haiti drops will be located at each shuttle stop located in the Expo remote parking lot at Collin College. See map for details!
Southwest Center Mall (Redbird) - Oak Cliff/Dallas
3662 W. Camp Wisdom Road, Ste. 1026 Business Incubator (behind stage)
Drop off times: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. thru April 30, 2010
Run On! Shoe Stores in Dallas, Richardson, Coppell, McKinney
** Use Run On! locations for deliveries of 1-4 pairs of shoes at a time.
OHIO
Mixx Ultra Lounge
1203 Main Street, Cincinnati
(513) 621-6499
Host Guide
Are you an event promoter or community organizer? Sign up to collect shoes during your Earth Month event! Click here to download the Host Guide.
Partner Organizations
The Live Green Expo has been Texas' largest environmental event since 2007. Today the Expo serves more than 15,000 North Texans and remains FREE to the public. The Expo is produced by the City of Plano's Sustainability & Environmental Services Department and will take place at the Plano Centre on Saturday, April 17, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information contact us at (972) 816-9489 or info@livegreenexpo.net.
The Shoe Bank had just one goal when it was founded in 1989 - to put comfortable shoes on a few hundred homeless men living on the streets in downtown Dallas. The program today provides shoes for twenty thousand people every year - primarily children, both here and abroad. For more information visit them online at www.shoebank.org or contact Mike Barringer at (972) 771-7658 / MichaelBarringer@sbcglobal.net.
Distributing Organizations: One 5 Foundation, Orphans of the World and Airline Ambassadors International have all agreed to assist with transporting and distributing shoes in Haiti. Two shipments of shoes are already in route to Haiti.
Equal Justice is a community service organization founded in 2007 in Dallas. Equal Justice supports the Shoes for Haiti campaign by organizing participation from local churches and other community based organizations.
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