Opportunity Details
Group Pairing Party (Only for 5+ People)
Interested in volunteering with your group for team-building, fellowship or community engagement? Schedule a service trip to the Soles4Souls VA/DC Regional Donation Center to help process shoes! If you are NOT part of a group, do not sign up here but click this link instead: https://www.handsonrva.org/opportunity/a0C1J00000I2FmpUAF If you do have 5+ people and already have a date/time in mind, please sign up here: https://calendly.com/soles4soulsva/volunteer-group Email virginia@soles4souls.org to request a specific shift not found in the link above. Volunteer Project: By volunteering at the Soles4Souls warehouse, you get the opportunity to help process the shoes brought in from the community and retailers. Each bag/box needs to be opened so that the shoes can be rubber-banded together. Most groups come for 2-2.5 hours. Soles4Souls Mission: Soles4Souls creates sustainable jobs and provides relief through the distribution of shoes and clothing around the world. It’s estimated that 21 billion pounds of textile waste is dumped in landfills every year. That makes up more than 5% of all municipal waste generated every year. Since 2006, Soles4Souls has diverted 23.8 million pounds of shoes and clothes from landfills and instead created meaningful economic opportunities and helped provide new shoes for those in need around the globe. Gently-worn shoes collected help individuals start and sustain small businesses to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Here is the impact an entrepreneur can make with the sale of 1, 20 or 30 pairs of shoes. 1 pair of shoes can provide 5 meals for Marie-Ange and her family in Haiti, 20 pairs of shoes can provide a year’s worth of shelter for Ginette and her family in Haiti and 30 pairs of shoes can provide a year’s worth of schooling for Tracy’s daughter in Honduras. Other: We ask that all groups collect used shoes prior to their service day to bring with them so the experience is full-circle. Email Regional Manager, Stephanie Hathaway at stephanieh@soles4souls.org to plan your service day and for more details on shoe collection. You can also pre-register your group here: https://calendly.com/soles4soulsva/volunteer-group Directions: Soles4Souls is in a shared building (1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Ste. E). It is behind a long chain linked fence with a ton of semi trucks and a large warehouse. Make a right when you come into the parking lot and go all the way to the end of the building where our warehouse is located. You can park anywhere in front of our space. The warehouse does not have AC/heat so please dress accordingly. Also, please wear comfortable clothing as this includes a lot of bending and moving. You’re welcome to play music in the warehouse so feel free to bring a speaker.
All participants must submit a waiver in advance: Soles4Souls Volunteer Waiver
International Service
Families, Low-income communities, Visitors & Travelers
Other,Administrative Support/Clerical,Collecting, Sorting & Packaging
Age Minimum (with Adult): 5+, Minimum Age:8+, Court Ordered Volunteer - Allowed
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