Making Some Happy Feet
Rotary Happy Feet 2012 is a partnership between the Mount Pleasant Lunch Rotary Club and the East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club. Each year, we partner with our local Target to give school shoes to needy children in our community. We gave away 200 pairs of shoes this morning. Here are some highlights of the event.
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- Sam Herin and MTM, talking architecture.
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- Jill Aiken, in pink, is our club’s next host for Francisco, our Rotary Gift of Life child from Panama.
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- Interact students from Wando High School always help with the event.
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- Signing ‘em in.
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- Lou Mello is our Grand Poobah of Happy Feet.
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- David Schwartz coordinated the whole event for ECB Rotary. Thanks, David!
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- ECB Rotarian Dimi Matouchev helping kids pick a style.
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- Past ECB Rotary President Nick Williams on the right. He’s coordinating our Rotary Gift of Life Program this year.
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Your pictures are wonderful, and they made me smile
My iPhone doesn’t take the best photos, but it looks like we’re all having fun.
Great fun and doing good, a great way to spend a Saturday morning.
It was a great event. Thanks for all you do to make it happen.
Seeing this post helps to raise my hope for the future. Thanks.
I hope we are outfitting the future with this event.
What a great event and cause! I don’t think we typically give enough thought to how hard it would be to go back to school without shoes that either fit or “fit in” with what other children are wearing. Great post, Andra. The Rotary really does do some wonderful work! D
Target really manages to fill every need. They’re great to work with, and I know the parents and kids like to come there to select something. It’s a great partnership.
Wonderful program, Andra. It is nice to see the pictures and give credence to what your Rotaries are doing.
Wonderful event, Andra! Great way to “support” the community.
(And . . . MTM looks marvelous in his “skinny jeans.”)
Happy feet are here again! I love this initiative. So inspiring. What a great team.
We finished it up today. One of my favorite events.
This has got to be one of the most fulfilling events. Wow. I’m sure at the end of the day my tear ducts would be drained, completely drained. Nothing, nothing compares to the leap of joy in a childs eyes.
I love doing this every year.
Your post brings back such great memories of doing the same thing, many years ago. I will never forget the smiles… when wearing the first pair of new shoes.