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You can check socks off the Christmas list
Lutz, Fl (11/5/2010) – The GFWC New Tampa Junior Woman’s Club conservation initiative has enabled them to provide four hundred and eighty socks for the children at Joshua House. That is six pairs for each child residing on campus, enabling them to check off one item for each child on the Christmas Wish List.
“In August I presented the membership with a challenge. For each pair of athletic shoes brought to a general club meeting for recycling via the Nike Reuse a Shoe program the Board would purchase a six pack of socks for a child at Joshua House,” said Patricia Murphy Conservation Community Project Coordinator for the GFWC New Tampa Junior Woman’s Club. “The response has been amazing! Last year we didn’t have much interest in the program and I thought this would be a good way to encourage recycling and help the kids at Joshua House. Initially I requested $250 for the project budget for the forty children currently living on campus but we started the new program three months ago and we have already recycled sixty three pairs of athletic shoes.”
The Friends of Joshua House recently published the Christmas Wish List for the children at Joshua House, “The timing was perfect,” said Murphy, “we had the size information and I went shopping for the kids last weekend and dropped off our first donation today.”
Joshua House is a safe haven for abused, abandoned, and neglected children, offering a therapeutic residential group care program that provides a protected, nurturing, family-like environment for children six - seventeen. These children have been removed from their homes due to crisis and many have been through multiple foster homes. The Wish List is available on their website at www.FriendsofJoshuaHouse.com.
GFWC New Tampa Junior Woman’s Club (NTJWC) is a 501 (c)3, non-profit organization dedicated to community improvement by enhancing the lives of others through volunteer service. The GFWC was established in 1890, and is an international organization of community based women’s clubs. Annual contributions of GFWC clubs average 13 million hours and $37 million dollars donated through 168,400 local club projects. The structure of GFWC and its state federations allows member clubs to address the emerging needs of individual communities and to respond quickly to calls for help.
Established in the early 1990s, Nike's Reuse-A-Shoe program collects old, worn-out athletic shoes for recycling, transforming them into Nike Grind, a material used in creating athletic and playground surfaces as well as select Nike products. Athletic shoes for recycling can be dropped off at the Nike Outlet Store in Ellenton. Nike has collected more than 24 million pairs – in other words, enough to create a chain of athletic shoes that goes all the way around the world more than five times. That’s a lot of kicks kept out of the landfill. Reusing old athletic shoes in sports surfaces also decreases the need for virgin rubber and other materials, decreasing the environmental impact of using new materials when building courts, tracks, fields and playgrounds. But the impact of Reuse-A-Shoe goes beyond keeping old kicks out of the trash. As one of Nike's longest-running environmental programs, Reuse-A-Shoe has been blazing the trail for sustainability and environmentally preferred business practices at Nike since 1990.
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