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New Hartford Rotary Club collecting shoes to help businesses in developing countries
The New Hartford Rotary Club is collecting shoes to help build the economies of developing countries.
Posted: Jan 15, 2021 9:30 AM
Updated: Jan 15, 2021 2:58 PM
Posted By: WKTV
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. – The New Hartford Rotary Club is collecting shoes to help build the economies of developing countries.
The shoes will be sent to Funds2Org in Florida, a group that take the lightly-worn shoes and send them to start-up businesses in countries like Haiti and Ghana.
The New Hartford Rotary will receive 40 cents for each pair of shoes.
“They start off with about 250 pairs of shoes that are donated to them with the idea that they could set up a small business,” said Edward Gallacher, president of the New Hartford Rotary. “Then as they prosper with it and reorder - then they do pay some amount for the shoes - but it actually helps the small communities in these third world countries grow econom