Notifying them when shoes require collection, or they themselves collect and deliver to Shoes4Souls. The champions are those that have joined in seeing the need in society and decided to contribute to the solution.

We collect new, used and broken shoes of all shapes, sizes and types, children to adults, men’s and woman’s. We additionally collect school and sports shoes.

Broken shoes are repaired by a strategic partner. The long term plan is to develop and leverage this relationship to offer homeless individuals the opportunity to train as cobblers as part of a job creation and skills transfer programme. Shoes received are washed and cleaned and catalogued. One of our strategic partners is currently developing an application that will handle the logistics and warehousing function, which will allow us to give detailed reports to all donors and track each shoe from receipt to final distribution. This will be smartphone based, so expansion to multiple locations will be easily managed. Another strategic partner is assisting us by supplying Shoes4Souls with all our internal boxing storage and for distribution.

Future plans are to continue working with schools to get Matric learners to donate their shoes at the completion of their studies, and learners who have outgrown theirs in earlier grades to do the same. To encourage churches, schools and social clubs to host shoe collection drives, where members can contribute in large volumes.

Shoes are distributed to those in need, predominantly in the Pretoria CBD. As Shoes4Souls grows we plan to expand this distribution footprint and start supporting other organisations, schools as well as being able to respond to crisis situations where communities are ravaged by disaster.