Soles4Souls

 Over 150 pairs of shoes were collected for Soles4Souls, Inc. who distributes the shoes to people in need such as victims of natural disaster or living in extreme poverty. More than 4 millions pairs of shoes have been distributed to people in over 70 countries, including Honduras, Uganda, Romania, and the US. CCW partnered with the Kennett Square Rotary Club in collecting over 100 pairs of shoes and received local press about the 2008 end of year shoe drive.

The first 50 pairs of shoes were shipped Feb 3 2009.

"Changing the World One Pair at a Time." ™

Breast Cancer Awareness:  

The Sunday May 09 2010 Susan G Komen CCW Team: Let's Bust a Move has been formed. Please join Bronwyn and CCW as walkers, runners and donors!

 Please click here to join or pledge the team: do a search for Let's Bust a Move to go to the team page.

Please support Breast Cancer Awareness: 1 in 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and the Susan G Komen Foundation is leading the global movement to end breast cancer forever

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb911894.htm

Need More Information?

Call Bronwyn Martin at 610-453-7215 to help getting people to contribute, walk, run, sign up.

The community involvement through CCW has been, and continues to be, breast cancer and ovarian cancer awareness. The first anniversary in 2004 raised over $2,000 for breast cancer awareness for Living Beyond Breast Cancer, a local grass roots organization. Since 2004, CCW has had a team walking in the Philadelphia’s Susan G Komen Race for the  Cure ®. In 2008, $6,300 was raised for the Race for the Cure ®.

In 2005 CCW began it’s support of the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation (SROCF). Through CCW’s efforts, mainly through CCW anniversary celebrations, over $22,000 has been raised for ovarian cancer awareness 2005-2009. CCW will continue it’s efforts on this front through it’s relationship with Robin Cohen, co-founder of SROCF.

Also in 2005, CCW started supporting a woman each year through Women for Women International.  $324 is spent each year to support a woman in a war-torn country to give her the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency.  Germaine Zigabe in DR Congo, Rosa Amisi in DR Congo, Vinciane M’njungu in DR Congo and Beatrice Mukamzimpaka in Rwanda are the 4 women supported 2005-2009. The support to Beatrice allowed her to repair her house ‘which was almost falling on me. We thank you for this.’ Beatrice’s husband has left her with their 6 children.  Beatrice extends an invitation to visit her. December 2009 will start the relationship with our 5^th ‘sister’.

Meeting fees from CCBLC and GPBLC have been given to various organizations. Over $500 was given to the PA Home of the Sparrow; over $100 was given to Camp DreamCatcher; over $300 was donated to the Girls, Inc in Philadelphia. “With the pooling of one’s financial resources, more can be given away.” Several have commented that the community aspect is a big reason of why they come to meetings and strongly support CCW or CCBLC or GPBLC or all 3.

Moving into 2010, Martin is continuing to lower overhead, so that more meeting fee money can be given back to the community. Martin will implement a new form of giving back in 2010 through GPBLC: microcredit loans through kiva.org. Martin has personally been doing this since 2008 and so has “tested the waters.”