Schools

Energize your school spirit, and save lives by giving your shoes the boot! Grade school, middle school, high school, college, it makes no difference.

A  Shoeman Water Projects shoe drive is a simple, low-work, no-cost way to encourage service, recycling and learn more about the value of water.

Incorporating a used and new shoe drive into a class room lesson, price of admission to a football game, as a school wide competition, or SHOEnap the principal, increases school spirit, decreases landfill burdens, and save lives! One pair of donated shoes serves two: a pair of shoes to provide affordable footwear and a cup of clean, fresh water. With a Shoeman Water Project school shoe drive kit, holding a shoe drive is as easy as tying your sneaker laces.

Don’t take just our word for it! Read what Victoria Casady, reading teacher at Ferguson Middle School, had to say.

Start a Shoe Drive, It’s Simple:

  1. Let us know you’d like to have a shoe drive. Use the easy online form to request a shoe drive or cell phone drive kit, email or call 636-751-8197. You can schedule a kick-off presentation and a shoe pickup.
  2. We’ll send a kit with instructions, collection bags, and a yard sign.
  3. Announce your drive with our handy Downloads and start your shoe collecting mission!

SHOENap the Principal, It’s Fun and Easy:

  1. Discuss and get the permission of the principal, coach, or teacher to SHOEnap their shoes overnight.
  2. Create a SHOEnap ransom note explaining the shoes will be held ransom until the ransom number of used and new shoes are donated (we suggest 10x the number of people in the building).
  3. Send us your ransom note along with the target day you would like us to pick up your shoes and we’ll send you a shoe collection kit. (email or call 636-751-8197.)
  4. On the planned day, SHOEnap the selected person’s shoes taking pictures or video taping the event and the shoes. The selected person must go without their shoes for the day making a visible, bare-foot statement about recycling shoes for water.
  5. As soon as the shoes have been SHOEnapped, post the ransom note, read it over the PA, or announce it at a special event.

Consider being a drop-off site.

Download our handy, electronic announcements, fliers and posters to announce your shoe drive.