The Geneva Key Club has teamed up with the Association of Individual Development (AID) for a shoe drive within the community to raise shoes and awareness for a worthy cause.

AID is a self-funded organization that works mainly to help people with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. They conduct many fundraisers like the shoe drive in order to help make the world a better place. The shoes raised from the drive are sent to AID where they are sorted, put in pairs, and rubber banded by people with mental, physical, and emotional disabilities as a part of their job program. Their job program helps to provide them wages, as well as help give them a sense of purpose. Once sorted, the donated shoes are sent to an organization that delivers the shoes to third world countries and are distributed to people in need. However, if the shoes are not in a good condition they are sent to a different organization where they are broken down into different materials and recycled into post-consumer products.

Key Club’s goal is to raise one thousand pairs of shoes by the end of the school year. There are ten barrels located around the school in places like the main office and the guidance office to fill up with shoes. The shoes being collected will be sent to warm countries, so Key Club asks that the shoes are meant for a warm climate, are practical, and are donated in pairs in order to provide as much help as possible to the cause.

Be sure to look around for some old shoes during spring  cleaning to donate to a worthy cause!