Benefit Party at Yale

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.

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Maurice the Footballer

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!

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Collections are Up and Running

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!

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Under Way!

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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