{"id":660,"date":"2011-08-24T20:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rossis.me\/?p=660"},"modified":"2011-08-24T20:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:45:57","slug":"ross-imdt-in-cincinnati-puts-best-foot-forward-for-soles4souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/ross-imdt-in-cincinnati-puts-best-foot-forward-for-soles4souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross IMDT in Cincinnati Puts Best Foot Forward for Soles4Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">While most people would rather spend the summer outside, more than 100 students and staff at Ross IMDT, located at 11590 Century Boulevard, Suite 210, were more than happy to go inside and clean their closets for a good cause. In just 3 days, the school collected 173 pairs of gently used shoes to benefit the non-profit organization, Soles4Souls<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Inc. Souls4Soles, headquartered in Nashville, TN, takes donations of used shoes to help impoverished people in developing nations start a business to support their local economy. Donations of new shoes are used to help people living in abject<br \/>\npoverty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cThis was a great fundraiser in that it allowed everyone to contribute,\u201d said Ben Gregory, Campus Director, Ross IMDT. \u201cNot only are our closets cleaner, but our donation is helping to protect people by preventing the spread of\u00a0life-threatening diseases often contracted through bare feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0According to Soles4Souls:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Shoes help prevent the spread of parasitic diseases that plague over 1.4 billion people\u00a0worldwide, and they are a basic human necessity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;The reality of life for many individuals in developing nations is that having a pair of shoes is a\u00a0rarity. It is not uncommon for children to grow up in these areas without ever having had a\u00a0pair of shoes at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;The number of barefoot orphaned children, in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, is estimated to be\u00a0above 20 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Over 300 million children worldwide are without shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Shoes are very often considered a required part of the school uniform in developing countries,\u00a0and without shoes, many children are unable to attend school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Thanks to all students and staff who donated to this very important cause!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most people would rather spend the summer outside, more than 100 students and staff at Ross IMDT, located at&hellip;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/ross-imdt-in-cincinnati-puts-best-foot-forward-for-soles4souls\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}