The public is invited to participate in a shoe drive to raise funds for the Lea County Humane Society Animal Transports. Donations of gently worn, used and new shoes will be accepted. The amount of money raised is determined by the total weight of the shoes collected.
All donated shoes will be redistributed to microenterprise partners through Funds2Orgs, a for profit social enterprise, and used in developing nations for impoverished people to start their own businesses.
This shoe drive is active now through Oct. 20.
In the U.S. alone, over 600 million pairs of shoes are thrown away every year. The materials used to manufacture a pair of shoes are created from chemical compounds that will create health hazards if left to disintegrate openly or in landfills. By donating your gently worn, used and new shoes to the Lea County Humane Society Animal Transports, your shoes are given a second chance to make a difference.
The Lea County Humane Society Animal Transport program moves dogs every week from Hobbs and Lovington Animal Shelters to rescues in other areas that don't have the overpopulation issues found in our county. We transport primarily to Colorado, but also send animals to Wyoming, Virginia, and even Canada. Through the transport program, we are saving over 3000 lives per year, and have earned a 'no-kill' status at the Hobbs facility for the past 3 years.
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