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Sep 4,2008

Pie Footwear hosts Alberta Street Fair Shoe Donation & Recycling Drive

by pearlgirl
pie From our friends at Pie Footwear... There are an estimated 1.5 billion pairs of shoes in American homes that are destined for our landfills instead of being put to use the way they were intended: on people's feet. Pie Footwear in partnership with Albina Community Bank , Teva Footwear , The Waterkeeper Alliance , Soles4Souls and The Alberta Street Fair will host a Shoe Donation & Recycling Drive during the 11th annual Alberta Street Fair on Saturday, September 13th. Shoes collected will be donated to Soles4Souls and distributed on a national and international level to people in need. Soles4Souls participated in donating over 1 million pairs of shoes to help aid the relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. For each shoe collected, Teva will donate $1 to The Waterkeeper Alliance. The Waterkeeper Alliance is a grassroots advocacy organization with 177 local Waterkeeper programs and growing. They are dedicated to preserving and protecting
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categories: fashion+beauty
tags: shoes vegan
neighborhoods: Alberta Street concordia
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