A community leader launches a monthlong shoe drive for underprivileged children in Durham. | Ron N Shoot/Facebook
A community leader launches a monthlong shoe drive for underprivileged children in Durham. | Ron N Shoot/Facebook
A community leader launched a monthlong shoe drive, with the goal of collecting at least 300 pairs for underprivileged children in Durham.
"In 2019, I was an educator in the Durham public schools system, and we would see a lot of behavioral issues because of low self-esteem and not having adequate shoes and clothes, and so we started the initiative to aid in that and to help low self-esteem," Sherard Johnson, president of Ron N Shoot Sports, said in a WTVD report.
The nonprofit is calling the drive “Project 300." So far, the drive is off to a good start.
The shoe drive hopes to collect 300 pairs.
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"Progress has been pretty good,” he said. “We have a lot of different shoes, a lot of nice shoes — Jordans, Yeezys, things like that — so I mean it's been phenomenal. But again the goal is 300, but we would like to service about 1,000 kids."
The shoe collection began July 5 and goes through Aug. 10, with a Project 300 community event to follow Aug. 14 in Durham.
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