Wtih the start of the New Year, we want to say “Thank You” to everyone who helped make 2011 a big success. Our last shipment of the year went out last week, 3000 pairs on way to Haiti, with the help of JamCruise, which is delivering the shoes to Labadee.

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Tell your friends! Join us Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Avalon Ballroom for a fun evening of mingling with fellow athletes, dancing, finding some cool silent auction items to bid on, and seeing five local legends inducted into the inaugural Boulder Sports Hall of Fame class. Funds are being raised for two big shipments, to [...]

One World Running helped the city of Baracoa, Cuba, celebrate its 500th anniversary by putting on the first annual La Farola “Marathon,” a 31K up and down an engineering marvel of a road called La Farola. Many of the best runners from the island showed up for the event, part of a yearly festival. Each [...]

Roughly 2,000 shoes were sent to Belize so far this year, including a large number distributed by wonderful Ohio State students on their Alternative Spring Break. The week was highlighted by the annual OWR Special Olympic Belize 5K and 3K, with great support from officials in Belize City. The group also went to Corozul and [...]

The wide shape appeared suddenly in front of me, looming out of the early-morning darkness as I ran along the water in this sleepy coastal town. Thinking it could be a jaguar, I darted to the side of the road before seeing that it was a woman, a bit heavy, walking briskly. She had on [...]

Thanks to Francie Bosley for arranging for shoes to get to the Hope for Orphans Rehabilitation Center near Rui, Kenya. This village is about 25 kilometers east of the capital of Nairobi. According to Francie, the adults in Rui walk between 5-7K a day to get to work.

Shoes for Kili Guide, originally uploaded by One World Running. Thanks to Todd Alexander for making sure shoes got onto the feet of porters in Moshi, Tanzania. The porters often do not get much attention, but they are the ones who carry much of the loads that allow visitors to make it to the to [...]

  We had a nice note back from the school which received shoes in Jalapa, Nicaragua. The shipment was delivered to a new school. Professor Debbie Young wrote, We have witnessed the use of the many shoes you have provided for so many people in Nicaragua. and how your shoes are going to good use [...]

Some of the top preps in Belize competed in the Central American high school games in Guatemala City using spikes supplied by OWR. Thanks to Ian Gray for facilitating the distribution.