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Runnersworld Magazine
June 2008

Moving Stories, David Willey Article (PDF Format)

There has been blood, Peter Gambaccini Article (PDF Format)

Help the needy Article (PDF Format)

The Awareness Blog
June 2008

Interview: Toby Tanser, Founder of Shoe4Africa
Shoe4Africa was founded in 1995 by Toby Tanser, an elite Icelandic runner now living in New York City. The organization began ...more

Runnersworld.com
June 2008

Running for Kenyan Peace
Former world champion marathoners Douglas Wakiihuri and Luke Kibet held the finish line tape at the inaugural Run for Peace 5k in Iten, Kenya, on March 15th, while dozen of other Kenyan legends played a role in the free race for school-aged children ...more

IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations)
Monday 17 March 2008

Exceptional gathering at Shoe4Africa Peace Run
Never at a Kenyan race has there been such a galaxy of International stars from past, present & future.
It was a day of joyous celebration on Saturday in Iten, Kenya at the Shoe4Africa Peace run. Over 560 school girls came out to run a 4km peace run powered by Leppin...more

Daily Nation
Sunday 16 March 2008

14-year-old wins Iten peace race
Fourteen-year-old Paskalin Kosgei of Chebonet Primary School on Saturday won the Shoe4Africa race in Iten.....more

Daily Nation
Friday 14 March 2008

Elite runners united for peace
Kenya's elite runners, past and present, will be in Iten on Saturday not to run, but to support a unique peace race.
Marathon champions including world champion Luke Kibet, Joyce Chepchumba, Martin Lel and Robert Cheruiyot will mix with legends such as Daniel Komen, Nyantika Maiyoro and Douglas Wakiihuri at the Shoe4Africa Peace race, a unique five-kilometre competition for junior athletes organised by US-based Shoe4Africa, a not-for-profit organization that promotes empowerment, health, and Aids awareness in Africa....more

Montel Williams Show
December 2007

Shoe4Africa is featured on the Montel Williams Show. The audience each donates a pair of running shoes, and New Balance double matched the audience with a 350-pair donation for the Kibera project. (Featured twice daily on Fox TV & Channel 9).

People Magazine
Friday 2 November 2007

Anthony Edwards has a goal and he's running with it - Nov. 5 the actor will help collect thousands of shoes new New York's Central Park on behalf od Shoe4Africa, an organization that will provide footwear to residents of Kenya's Kibera slum. Celeb donors so far include Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood and Emily Deschanel. "Our goal is to get 1 million shoes there", he says. For more information go to People Magazine.

IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations)
Saturday 16 December 2006

Atodonyang beats established names at the Shoe4Africa 5k in Iten
Iten, Kenya - Twenty-seven-year-old mother of three, Pauline Atodonyang, beat many top athletes to win the Shoe4Africa 5km road race in the north Rift Valley Province town of Iten, today.
Atodonyang, a native of Kapsangar, which is gaining notoriety for discovering athletes in their post-prime ages, has been training for just two years in the same camp as Chelapong Chemokil, a mother of four who caught the nation's imagination when she won the 2005 Standard Chartered Nairobi International Marathon.
"I will invest this money in my training, buying facilities and food for my children," said Atodonyang who finished in 17:03 to win...more

IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations)
Friday 8 December 2006

Stars step-up to promote Aids Awareness
In the village of Iten, Kenya, the Shoe4Africa Leppin 5km women’s race to promote Aids Awareness will be held, in conjunction with a 2km health walk on the 16 December.
The star, Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) of the American TV drama E.R. will be starting the event that has to date signed up 2100 entrants. The idea is to inspire the TV couch potatoes to attend the event, to see their idol. “It is not every day a megastar turns up in a Kenyan village and Anthony (who played Nick Goose in Top Gun) is extremely well known in Kenya,” explained Shoe4Africa’s founder Toby Tanser...more