Changing Footprints recently achieved an impressive milestone, collecting 291 pairs of shoes from 14 drop-off bins located throughout Allen County in a single week. These shoes were paired, counted, and transported to the organization’s “shoe shed” in New Haven, where they were sorted into 42 categories. Each pair was then packed into labeled banana boxes…
Roanoke Elementary School recently collected 683 pairs of new and gently used shoes for Changing Footprints. Led by 5th grade teacher Jamilyn PeGan the 441 students reacted enthusiastically at a presentation given in the gymnasium by Cheryl Brockmann of Changing Footprints. Over a two-week period, almost every student contributed to the ever-growing pile of shoes. It was…
Southwest Montessori Academy collected an amazing 370 pairs of shoes during their recent shoe drive for Changing Footprints. The school serves children ages 3-6 and does a community service project each year that includes student learning around the projects. All of the school’s families were encouraged to “clean out their closets” and they responded enthusiastically. Changing…
Cheryl Brockmann of Changing Footprints of Northern Indiana has announced that their non-profit organization collected 35,424 pairs of shoes for the poor and homeless in 2023. Working with several social service agencies, they distributed 30,203 pairs. No one was ever charged money to receive these shoes. Each pair of donated shoes helped one person have…
Lisa Knox, MPH, Ambulatory Care Transitions Coordination Supervisor for Parkview Population Health organized a shoe drive within her department this week for Changing Footprints. Each of the 25 members of her team were asked to bring in their used shoes on Tuesday Nov. 28th. A representative from Changing Footprints was on hand to collect the…
Christmas in the Library is a free festival sponsored by Christ Child Festival and held at ACPL-Main, 990 Library Plaza in Fort Wayne. Discover the invisible Crimson Thread woven throughout the biblical narrative from Genesis to Revelation. Attending the Downtown Night of Lights? We invite you to come November 22nd, Thanksgiving Eve, for a…
Eric Purdy, M.D., a board-certified ophthalmologist living in Bluffton, IN, gave a very interesting talk to the Arcola, IN Lions Club on Tuesday evening. “Dr. Purdy specializes in oculoplastic surgery, eye muscle surgery, and diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases. Oculoplastic surgery includes the surgical treatment of droopy eyelids, eyelid deformities and tumors, eyelid injuries,…
Heritage Lions Club member Rick Boys, along with Rolando Yuja (pictured) of the Honduras Lions and Jim Brockmann, loaded some 7,000 eyeglasses on Saturday and delivered them to John Geller of the Arcola Lions Club. Gellar stores the eyeglasses in his barn until the Arcola Lions hold their semi-annual eyeglass sorting party in the spring.…
Recently, Cheryl and Jim Brockmann spoke about the Changing Footprints program. The project began in Indianapolis, in 2005, when co-founders Maureen Leisure and Bob Broughton learned there was a great need for children’s shoes in Afghanistan. They gathered some friends and created an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that collects unwanted shoes and distributes them for free…
The Heritage Lion are collecting eyeglasses, cell phones, hearing aids and batteries. We have also begun collecting shoes for an Indianapolis-based program called Changing Footprints. We will accept any type or condition of shoe. Even the most worn-out shoes, or even a single shoe, is welcome. Nike pays the shipping costs for all unusable shoes.…
