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William Bourgault never suspected that cleaning out his closet last summer could help hundreds of kids in Ottawa get free shoes.
The 21-year-old Algonquin College student is the founder and operator of one of the city’s newest charitable groups: Footwear 4 Kids, which provides shoes, boots and everything in between to young people in need.
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He started the group after deciding last summer that he wanted to donate some of the shoes he had outgrown, but realizing there wasn’t really any specific organization set up to accept used footwear.