{"id":1779,"date":"2018-09-05T01:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T01:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:45:38","slug":"shoes-for-the-third-world-from-bluffton-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Shoes for the Third World&#8230; from Bluffton, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son Jonathan and I are collaborating on a <a href=\"https:\/\/funds2orgs.com\/\">funds2Orgs<\/a> project at the high school here. \u00a0We are setting up a box for used shoes. \u00a0The organization then takes the shoes, weighs them, and donates so much per: pound to the non-profit Rec Center here. \u00a0What&#8217;s more, the shoes are then shipped overseas where they are used to help people in the Third World set up small shoe cottage industries. \u00a0In addition, these businesses also sometimes hire people to refurbish the shoes. \u00a0And, finally, consumers there often get quality shoes at an affordable price. \u00a0Everyone wins. \u00a0Note: \u00a0Several years ago, our Sarah took a missions trip to Nicaragua. \u00a0One night in Managua, her team <a href=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1561\">came across a group of young kids<\/a> in threadbare clothes and shoes, playing soccer on a small patch of dirt in the city. \u00a0Sarah said the kids were &#8220;joyful,&#8221; were making do, but at the same time, America could help these kids so much more than we do. \u00a0These refurbished shoes (including, hopefully, a lot of soccer shoes), will be a step in this direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son Jonathan and I are collaborating on a funds2Orgs project at the high school here. \u00a0We are setting up a box for used shoes. \u00a0The organization then takes the shoes, weighs them, and donates so much per: pound to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1779\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}