O'Fallon Progress

Monica's shoe drive hit a new milestone and our trip made the front page of the O'Fallon Progress newspaper in St. Louis. The story is not online, but when I get a copy I will post it here. The basics story is that LaVerna Evans Elementary in O'Fallon, IL promoted her shoe drive and came up with hundreds if not thousands of shoes.

We dropped these off at the shipping agent who will be putting them on a pallette and shipping them to California. The original idea was to bring big duffle bags and bring them back on the plane. There were way too many shoes to make this possible so we had to find other arrangements. This picture of the pallette doesn't do it justice since the boxes are not yet stacked and most of them are beside and behind the pallette. There was enough to fill an entire pallette.

Thanks to Team Worldwide in helping us get these back to California. Next we will be working on a way to get all these shoes to Africa. Hang on! It's getting to be a wild ride but everything has been falling into place.