Right now the real help Shoe4Africa needs is with the funds for the Hospital; an extreme medical urgency in this area of Kenya is crying out for this facility, and my belief was always that the same kind of fund raising St Jude's Hospital relies on, could get the job done. Small donations build Towers. The initial stage is we need $5-million to get the building in place, then in the second stage we think about supplies (we have over 70-pages of a business plan). 100% of your donation will go straight to getting the bricks in place!

Please do consider Shoe4Africa when making a Christmas/ Holiday's gift this year. Donating 'bricks' in the name of your friend will make a lasting present of real meaning (see our Wall of Fame).

Please consider, should you believe in our program, to being a regular supporter and making a small donation each month.

Other Shoe4Africa projects;
School fees in Africa, supporting our running training camp in the Marakwet, Kenya, for shipping of shoes.  For our races where no one pays an entry fee, where every finisher gets a soda and bread, where every starter and 200 volunteers (at least) get a t-shirt, where the top twenty runners get prize money or merchandise (we have given away three laptops in the first five months of this year).  Your donation could also be used for shipping shoes to Africa, for transporting those shoes from the docks to the destination,  legal fees over in Africa.

Our ongoing projects are extremely expensive (the T shirts alone for Kibera Dec. 2008 cost $15,000 to give away). We are not a charity who pays ourselves first, then looks after the 'charity' -- we are true charity.  Since 1995 we are yet to receive a single grant (Anyone out there who wants to be number one?).

This is one reason that since 2008 we are now asking donors to send their shoes directly to Africa as the inflow was overwhelming, and the escalating costs of more and more storage units was an un-needed burden. It was never the charity's aim to become a mass dumping ground - we are more hands on.  Thanks for your support -- it is working.

Shoe4Africa is a charititable organization and needs the help of people like you! Until recently Shoe4Africa was able to take donated shoes and bear the cost of shipping them to Africa. The USPS changed its policy and rate structure on shipping (in the USA) no longer allows shoes to be shipped to Africa via surface mail; Please note all shoe donations from America must be sent by Airmail if using the USPS. This has increased our costs above five fold making it temporarily impossible for us to send all your shoes for you.

Currently, we are securing storage and researching new shipping options, and while we do so we encourage you to ship your shoes directly to our representatives in Africa.

If you buy a $100+ running shoe, then to spend about 8% of that, and post your own gently used pair to Africa.

Please only send gently used, as we are paying tax receiving many shoes, that when unpacked, are found to be no use for running. The shoe should be 'good' for at least another 100-miles of running, thanks so much.

Please send to the following address:

Shoe4Africa
c/o Monicah Kiplagat
PO Box 6943
ELDORET
KENYA

Phone 254-734-851809

We are attempting to secure support from a shipping/courier or freight sponsor to continue and expand the program. In the meantime we are sending the stock of shoes we have on hand 'slowly' by airmail as funds permit. If you have any information or can help us in our search for affordable shipping please send us an email at: info@shoe4africa.org.

For The Kibera Project we are organizing mass shoe drives in several cities, please check back here for further information as well as when and where these drives will be held.

Shoe4Africa is an organization that now steps further than just handing out shoes. Our initiatives include training camps, athletic scholarships and sponsored races. Shoe4Africa has largely been operating without sponor funds with nearly all expenses being paid out of our own pocket and through donations.

To that end we are happy to accept both Individual and Corporate donations. For more information or to make a charitable contribution please click below or contact Shoe4Africa's director Toby Tanser at: Toby@shoe4africa.org.