Thursday, 5 August 2010
Monday, 14 June 2010
Cleats for Bare Feet has been growing grassroots support from individuals assisting with collections. This summer, Meghan and Sabrina Ziegler will be coordinating the following collections sites:
Frederick County Soccer Camp
at Urbana High School
June 21 - 25
OHS Youth Soccer Camp
at Oakdale High School
July 26 - 29
The collections are during those schools summer soccer camps, but the Ziegler's are happy to take other cleats, shin guards, balls and jerseys. Email zieglerfam5@yahoo.com with any questions or for donation information.
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Monday, 10 May 2010
Cleats for Bare Feet will be collecting cleats on May 29-30, 2010 at the Columbia Invitational by Elite Tournaments. We will be collecting at the following locations:
Covenant Park
OBGC
Howard Community College
Hawthorne Park
Alpha Ridge
Cedar Lane
If anyone wants to help with collections let us know. If you have any questions about making donations contact Keith at kdm8302@uncw.edu.
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Cleats for Bare Feet has teamed up with Thunder Soccer Club to hold a collection site at the team's club-wide training sessions. We will be collecting on the May 10 and May 17. Players can bring used cleats and other soccer equipment directly to their practice. C4BF will be set up from 5:30 to 7:30.If you have any questions, please contact Keith at kdm8302@uncw.edu.
Monday, 3 May 2010
Today Cleats for Bare Feet shipped a donation of 25 pairs of cleats to the Ignite a Dream Foundation in Austin, Texas. Ignite a dream has structured soccer programs in order to provide encouragement, positive reinforcement and tools for youth to reach goals. We know the cleats will get great use from the children that receive them.Thanks to everyone who donated and to CV Restoration for helping with shipping.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Cleats for Bare Feet will be holding a collection at the Columbia Invitational Memorial Day Tournament May 29-31, 2010. Games will be played on fields across the city of Columbia. Cleats for Bare Feet will be set up at the following fields:
Covenant Park
Howard Community College
Cedar Lane
Cedar Lane
Cradle Rock School
Alpha Ridge
Jeffers Hill
Thanks to the Maryland Soccer Program for their collection at their game against Akron. They won 3-1 and collected two boxes of cleats for us. If you would like to help please email Keith at kdm8302@uncw.edu or call him 410.916.8338.
Thursday, 15 April 2010
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Friday, 9 April 2010
The Soccer Association of Columbia has just commenced its Cleats for Bare Feet collection. The collection box is a big wooden bin, marked with fliers, located next to fields 1-4 against the tot-lot fence.
We also want to thank the UNCW men's team, UNCW women's club team, Cradle Rock School and Manor Woods Elementary for their participation in our collections. Whether a collection is big or small, every single pair will result in another child with a smile and an opportunity. Thanks for contributing.
Thursday, 8 April 2010
This weekend, the Texas State Cup: Women's Open will be an official drop off location for Cleats for Bare Feet! Good luck if you are playing in the tournament. If you're going to be in the area, feel free to drop by to watch some games and bring some cleats.
The tournament is at:
Northeast Metropolitan Park (NEMP)
2703 Pecan St.
Pflugerville, Texas 78660
Pflugerville, Texas 78660
Monday, 29 March 2010
We'd like to promote the student project of a current Oakland Mills High School senior Kevin Sullivan. It's great to support local initiatives, especially when they involve projects that really encourage young people to learn the importance of giving. We ask that you take the time to ready about Soccer Saves Lives and the impact it will make.
The description goes as follows...
Soccer Saves Lives is a student-led organization out of Oakland Mills High School that aims to educate teens and adults alike on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in West Africa. It is common that West African countries may not be given the same attention as other areas of Africa who have significant problems with HIV/AIDS. However, in Nigeria alone, more than 2.5 million people have AIDS. The suffering is real, but the possibility for education and prevention of HIV/AIDS becomes increasingly more likely if we act now.
Soccer Saves Lives sells t-shirts for the cause and uses the international connector of people, cultures and races to help raise money and supplies for children in West Africa. With the help of our community, and particularly the soccer community, Soccer Saves Lives can provide the resources and education our brothers and sisters in West Africa need in order to live HIV/AIDS free
As part of this initiative, 100% of the money from t-shirt sales will go to hospitals and youth organizations in West Africa who can provide direct aid for those most in need. Thank you for your support and let us as a community put a kick against HIV/AIDS!
T-shirts are only $10. Buy one to wear around town, while practicing soccer or to sleep in. Buy them for your intramural teams, summer leagues, etc.
Saturday, 20 March 2010
This weekend we have boxes set up at Covenant Park for the Baltimore Mania tournament by Elite Tournaments. If anyone wants to donate cleats, the boxes will be located right next to the tournament tent.
Additionally, we have recently picked up our collection boxes at the Soccer American store locations, and are happy to report three full boxes of cleats, shin guards, balls and shirts. Thank you to everyone who donated. The boxes are still there so if you still want to donate cleats just drop by the stores.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
We just saw this article on The New York Times website and were inspired to write a blog entry. Unfortunately, not all the charitable contributions sent to needy individuals throughout the world reaches actually reach hungry mouths. It's possible that half the food aid sent to Somalia is sold off by corrupt officials, including radical Islamic militants and even United Nations World Food Program employees! Instead of children suffering from kwashiorkor and other malnutrition illnesses being nourished with the food provided by intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies, greedy individuals feel the need to profit. Hungry mouths stay hungry, more people continue to die from starvation and immorality is fueled by good-samaritanship.
Cleats For Bare Feet may not be putting food in the stomachs of the famished, but the relationship remains the same. Soccer cleats sent abroad can fall into unfortunate hands and not reach the kids for whom they were meant. Instead of becoming the next Pelé, children risk continuing to kick makeshift soccer balls with their bare skin. That's why Cleats For Bare Feet has been doing all that we can to find reliable, trustworthy grassroots organizations and individuals to whom we can send soccer cleats domestically and abroad. We have connections in the United States, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and will hopefully soon have more contacts in South Africa, Senegal, Morocco, Brazil, Costa Rica and Vietnam.
If you know of any trustworthy person or organization who would like to be on the receiving end of some recycled, second-hand soccer cleats for needy children, contact us!
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
We would like to extend a big thank you to both Park School and Friends School of Baltimore. Both schools recently finished their cleat collections. Each school was able to collect around 30 pairs of cleats.
Each collection, no matter how small, is helping us out. This is really the grassroots way of going about making a difference. To all of the schools, clubs and businesses still holding collection sites, keep up the good work.
Each collection, no matter how small, is helping us out. This is really the grassroots way of going about making a difference. To all of the schools, clubs and businesses still holding collection sites, keep up the good work.
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Cleats for Bare Feet will be collecting at the upcoming Amanda Post Memorial March Mania Tournament.
There will be various collection boxes situated throughout the complex. Anyone with a question during the tournament can speak with a Cleats for Bare Feet representative with a collection box.
Boys Weekend March 6-7, 2010
Girls Weekend March 13-14, 2010
Anyone who has questions before the tournament can contact Keith at kdm8302@uncw.edu or (410) 916-8338.
Thank you to Elite Tournaments for allowing us to collect cleats at the tournament and for spreading the word. Good luck to all the players!
Friday, 26 February 2010
We have been making some serious progress with Cleats for Bare Feet and wanted to share some information on drop off locations with you.
The following are our current drop off locations:
Cradle Rock School
6700 Cradlerock Way
Columbia, MD 21045-4807
Manor Woods Elementary School
6101 Old Dobbin Ln.
Columbia, MD
Soccer American:
6656 Dobbin Rd.
Columbia, MD 21045
Soccer American:
3833 Plyers Mill Rd.
Kensington, MD 20895
Keith Meyers house
9502 Angelina Cir.
Columbia, MD 21045
Payam's house
4982 Dalton Dr.
Columbia, MD 21045
Jonah's house
4813 Ruatan St.
Berwyn Heights, MD 20740
Molly Shea at JMU
shea2mm@jmu.edu
443.803.4389
Justin's house
Wilmington NC and Newtown CT areas
203.788.2194
1379 Store Location
2727 Exposition Blvd., Suite 121
Austin, Texas 78703
Jill Collins house
13405 Country Lake Dr. in Steiner Ranch
Austin, Texas 78703
More locations coming soon. Watch out for a newspaper article in the Columbia Flier.
The following are our current drop off locations:
Cradle Rock School
6700 Cradlerock Way
Columbia, MD 21045-4807
Manor Woods Elementary School
6101 Old Dobbin Ln.
Columbia, MD
Soccer American:
6656 Dobbin Rd.
Columbia, MD 21045
Soccer American:
3833 Plyers Mill Rd.
Kensington, MD 20895
Keith Meyers house
9502 Angelina Cir.
Columbia, MD 21045
Payam's house
4982 Dalton Dr.
Columbia, MD 21045
Jonah's house
4813 Ruatan St.
Berwyn Heights, MD 20740
Molly Shea at JMU
shea2mm@jmu.edu
443.803.4389
Justin's house
Wilmington NC and Newtown CT areas
203.788.2194
1379 Store Location
2727 Exposition Blvd., Suite 121
Austin, Texas 78703
Jill Collins house
13405 Country Lake Dr. in Steiner Ranch
Austin, Texas 78703
More locations coming soon. Watch out for a newspaper article in the Columbia Flier.
Monday, 15 February 2010
It's been a while since the last blog post. Cleats for Bare Feet got slightly hindered by the blizzards on the East coast, but now things are back under way. The Cradlerock School and Manor Woods Elementary School in Howard County, Maryland now have collection boxes and news about the initiative has been sent home to parents. Plus, more schools in the area are about to start collections.
We are now collecting cleats for the organization Virginia Legacy Soccer Club Community Partnership, a group that works to make playing soccer possible for kids in the Williamsburg, Virginia area. VLSC coordinates soccer programs for more than 300 children per year. We are hoping to send them approximately 100 pairs of soccer cleats by the end of February. The cleats will be redistributed to primarily first through fourth grade students in and around Williamsburg.
Saturday, 23 January 2010
After a long of a break on the Cleats for Bare Feet blog, there's some really good news. The all-female athlete honors society Subrosa at Yale University and the group Party for a Cause will be throwing us a benefit party at a local bar in New Haven, Connecticut. The groups may pair up with a fraternity associated with the soccer team and harness their party powers to raise us some money! That money will allow us to offset the high cost of shipping second-hand soccer cleats domestically and overseas. Although details are not yet concrete, the party will be March 24, 2010, following the Yale spring break. More specifics to come.
Friday, 8 January 2010
The picture below is of a second grade boy named Maurice. He lives in the West Nairobi province of Kenya; Cleats for Bare Feet Team Leader Keith Meyers and Payam met him at the orphanage where they volunteered for several months.He is very athletic and loves to play soccer (he calls it football). As shown below, he has no shoes to play in, so he plays barefoot. Despite not owning a pair of soccer cleats, he can juggle the ball really well for a kid his age. With shoes, he might be able to go out for one of the local soccer teams. He is one of our many inspirations. Because of dedicated kids like Maurice, Cleats for Bare Feet was created to make a difference in their lives of youth across the globe; supplying them with sports equipment that we take for granted and usually throw out once we grow out of them.
Maurice and his peers will soon receive soccer cleats that will allow them to take part in their love of the game!
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Lots of good news from Cleats for Bare Feet. In less than five days, our Facebook group has almost 700 members! People have shown a lot of interest, either by asking how they can donate cleats or help out in other ways.
Collection centers are currently under way! We now have collection boxes in Calvert Hall and the Park School in Baltimore, Maryland. We will soon have collection centers in some Maryland club teams and through the Soccer Association of Columbia, as well as in some Howard County, Maryland public schools and universities. We will soon be collecting through club teams in Virginia, Connecticut and North Carolina and at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington and McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Keep checking in for updates and find those old cleats hiding your garage or basement and donate them to make another kid's life that much more fun!
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Cleats for Bare Feet has collected its first two pairs of cleats! Collection centers are still being established, but we're still accepting donations in the mean time. If you would like to donate cleats, you can bring them or send them to one of the following addresses:
Keith Meyers
Cleats for Bare Feet
9502 Angelina Circle
Columbia, MD 21045
Payam Sohrabi
Cleats for Bare Feet
4982 Dalton Drive
Columbia, MD 21045
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