Project Shoes has been meeting this need for hundreds of students each year since 1993. Our goal is that under-resourced children throughout Cambria County and the surrounding area will obtain the footwear they need in order to go to school without discomfort, accident, or embarrassment.
Many thanks to our partner schools who put on fundraisers to support Project Shoes. Along withn private and church donations, major funding for this program is the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community each Spring. To learn more, visit the HIGHMARK WALK PAGE and consider giving. Use the “Donate Now” link and choose Bridges Cooperative Ministry to donate, become a walker, join a team, or make your own team!
Project Shoes
Project Shoes provides new, well-fitting, seasonally appropriate footwear to under-resourced children throughout Cambria, Somerset, Bedford, Indiana, Blair and Clearfield Counties.
100% of monies donated go directly to helping under-resourced students. Referrals are made through school guidance counselors, teachers, nurses, social workers and other ministry and agency partners.
A guidance counselor from an area school in which 76% of students qualify for the free or reduced lunch program, shared how vital the Project Shoes program is to their students. In fact, during one of the rainiest weeks of this past school year, the guidance counselor shared how they had to duct-tape one little boy’s shoes in order for him to be able to wear them to finish out the rest of the school day.
We appreciate the support we receive for our Project Shoes program and for the sacrifice and generosity of those who help ensure that the under-resourced children and youth throughout our community have the resources needed for healthy bodies as well as healthy minds.
Thank you!
Project Shoes is funded in part by:
