Steps of Kindness:

When my family traveled to India for the first time in March of 2023, we noticed that a lot of the children lacked proper footwear (worn down and torn up sandals). We were shocked to learn that more than 250 million Indians living below the poverty line consider footwear a luxury. 10’s of millions of children have no shoes in India alone, and by contrast, roughly 300 Million pairs of shoes are discarded in the US every year. While we obviously couldn’t fix the problem for all of the kids, we focused on the city where I was teaching (Ahmedabad). We partnered with a local sneaker company in India, where each pair of shoes came out to be around 5$ USD. After fundraising, we ended up raising another 15,000 dollars on top of the amount for Roboreach, which gave us leeway to buy over 3000 pairs of shoes for the kids.