I became aware of this organization after my child's (public) elementary school solicited donations for old shoes with the explanation that they are being given to this charity and then that "These shoes are shipped overseas and sold for pennies to people in need. The money is then used to build wells and help people in Africa and Hati have clean water." The logic of this (shipping shoes worth pennies overseas - where the cost of the shipping would exceed the cost of the shoes) sounded bizarre, so I looked up the Form 990's they filed with the IRS. From there I saw that the biggest piece of their revenue goes to pay their own salaries and to fly themselves around - only about a third goes to actually help people (that don't work for their 'charity').
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- EIN 43-1685893
- (636) 751-8197
- 65 Chesterfield Mall Chesterfield MO 63017 USA
- www.shoeman.org
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Causes: Christianity, Religion, Religion-Related
Mission: To alleviate human suffering through program activities that provide access to safe drinking water and improve the environment by recycling used shoes to keep them out of landfills, selling used shoes to support water projects, providing access to water and shoes for poor people, and creating jobs and stimulating the economic enterprise for persons who resell shoes in secondary markets in impoverished countries.
Programs: Eagle wings ministries dba shoeman water projects' main focus is to provide clean water in communities, in developing countries. Projects were completed in kenya; a deep water well was provided to the community of kalatini and many capital maintenance projects were also completed in kenya. In haiti, the organization provided capital equipment (drilling rig, truck & supporting equipment) to a partner organization named h-pi. The organization also completed a well in jocmel. Additionally, 50 capital maintenance repairs were made to existing wells through various partners, five water purification systems were purchased for communities in haiti and new guinea. The organization funded operational support for solea water.
eagle wings ministries dba shoeman water projects' efforts to fund water projects, also created an eco friendly/sustainability program of keeping wearable, usable shoes out of local landfills and directing them into a secondary market for reuse both locally and globally.
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