Serenity Barron
Staff Writer
Students may donate shoes in any condition.
The goal is 200,000 shoes by Thanksgiving, and Webster is already over 1,000. There are shoe drop offs at the main office and math teacher Kristen Cole’s room (253). Student’s shoes will go to Kenya and help out with current Shoeman projects.
George P. Hutchings is the shoeman. He started the Shoeman Water Projects in 2008.
Hutchings recognized a large number of ministries and churches were addressing the needs of the disadvantaged in the United States, and decided to turn his attentions to Kenya,” according to shoeman.org.
Recently Hutchings has been “working on a well at the orphanage that was started this summer and two wells at the school of Turkwel,” said Karen Smith, who organized the project at the school.
Cole said, “This project is important because instead of just helping people in Webster Groves it is helping people who really need it.”
“I don’t want your money. I want your sole, your shoe sole, that is,” Hutchings said.
