Meet the Sanchez family (photo above-click the photo to enlarge). In many ways they are a typical rural Honduran family. They live in a simple dirt-floored house with a magnificent view of the many surrounding mountains and valleys. The father, mother and all of their children work together on the family farm raising corn, beans, coffee, cows, chickens and pigs. They love playing soccer and listening to Honduran teams on their battery powered radio.
They are typical in another way also. Notice their feet. Even though they all work hard to make a living there's just never enough money for everyone to have shoes, especially the children. These little bare feet get cuts and scratches which often lead to serious infection since they have no disinfectant or bandages. Even more common are the parasites that enter through these bare feet as they play and work where the pigs live (and defecate).
Through our partners at Global Aid Network (GAiN) we now have access to a whole shipping container (12,000 pair) of shoes. These simple, lightweight, open air shoes are perfect for warm, wet Honduras. Best of all we can get these brand new, name brand shoes for only $2 a pair. That's less than ten percent of the regular price and it includes our cost of getting them to Honduras and out to the villages.
Click here to see the Sanchez's village in Google Earth then watch the video at right for an idea of what it takes for an XMA team to reach the Sanchez's village.
While our XMA teams are distributing the shoes they will also have many opportunities (and large crowds) to share the Gospel. This simple act of showing God's love through meeting a basic need will open hearts to the most important need in their lives - a personal relationship with Christ.
But, we need your help to take advantage of this opportunity. For $2 you can put shoes, possibly the first pair they have ever had, on a little Honduran boy or girl. $20 will shoe an entire family. $200 will provide shoes for everyone in a small village or maybe $500 for a larger village. Simply click the 'Make a Donation' button at right to donate by credit card or PayPal or you can mail a check to Exreme Missionary Adventures, 16 Pierce Rd, Rayville LA 71269. Of course, all donations are tax-deductible.
You can help even more by sharing this project with your friends. Click this link to go to our sharable Shoes for Kids page. You can email this page to friends or to grab a widget for your webpage, blog or social network page.
Click
here for our Honduran partner Dario Delarca's thought's on our Shoes for Kids project.
Click here and look under GAiN container stories to see how previous containers have impacted Honduran families.
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