Larry Lunsford representing Kansas City Rotary, Cyd Terry representing Gallatin Rotary Club, and Ann Cummings of Foster Shoe Store.
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The Gallatin Rotary Club was represented by Cyd Terry when the shoe caravan came to town last Thursday. Gallatin’s contribution to the effort was 126 pairs of shoes, 85 pairs of socks, and many, many shoe laces. The goal this year was to collect 20,000 shoes to represent the 20th anniversary of the collection drive.
The Gallatin club has partnered with Ann Cummings of Foster Shoe Store since 2001 to gather shoes for the nonprofit program, Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls. The shoes are sorted and sent to vulnerable children in countries like Kenya, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
Gallatin Rotary purchases the shoes from Foster’s Shoe Store at a generously discounted rate. Ann collects the shoes throughout the year, a good assortment of name brand footwear.
The Rotary collection trailer arrived at Foster’s Shoe Store Thursday morning (after only slight delay due to GPS confusion) with several representatives from Northwest Missouri Rotary Clubs. Also present for this trip was Scott Collins representing Buckner Shoes, which is headquartered in Dallas, TX.
This year, the caravan’s journey covered every Rotary community in northern Missouri: 44 stops in two legs reaching the district’s 56 clubs.