When we started the Christmas shoe campaign a few weeks ago, I honestly had doubts that we would be able to get all 424 pairs of shoes for the children that need them at out partner schools in Zambia. I thought we’d gone a step too far, set ourselves an unachievable goal – we may be dreamers but sometimes you have to be realistic too!
And so as the first orders came trickling in I watched carefully as the numbers started to creep up, 20, 40, 80, 100, then a couple of the schools we link with here in the UK got involved and we jumped in to the 200’s.
Then on Monday we sent out an email to everyone on our database, we sent it at 1pm, and in under an hour another 40 pairs of shoes had been bought! I’m not very good at Maths but that’s a pair of shoes every one and a half minutes! Amazing!
Seeing our inbox fill with orders was quite overwhelming. We may have been the ones to make the bold public statement about choosing to ‘live life generously’, but from what I can tell over the past few weeks there are a fair few of you who are joining us in that life…
We’ve had orders from people we know, people we don’t, friends from now and friends from years gone by. There have been orders come in from at least seven different countries so far; UK, Canada, America, Australia, Tenerife, Cyprus, South Africa... Your response and generosity has been amazing.
Thank you to all of you who have contributed to making the shoe appeal such an incredible success. As I write this we have 379 pairs of shoes bought - only 45 pairs to go!
Sometimes being a dreamer isn’t so bad, together we can do this!
