"on a shoestring"

Updated as of December 16, 2:15pm

A few days ago I was covering Batang Pinoy Games at Dumaguete City; a grass-roots development program organized by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) to identify young talents all over the country to be trained for the national pool of athletes.

During one of the games, I saw some athletes sharing 1 pair of shoes among themselves because they don’t have their own running shoes. There were even 2 barefoot runners in the competition. The absence of a proper running shoes didn’t deter them into joining the tournament.

It was a very touching moment that I can’t help but blog what I just observed, if you haven’t read yet, please do visit Running Shoes Sharing at Batang Pinoy.

Because lots of readers and friends were also touched by the story, most of them wanted to help. They wanted to share what they have. So we came up of this “PROJECT.”

SHOESHARING PROJECT

If you want to join and share, you can contact (email, SMS or comment here) any of the bloggers who joined hands together to make this possible.

If you are a blogger, please do blog about this project. Please let us know your link on the comment section. We want to help as much athletes as possible and we want to partner with you.

Thank you in advance for sharing this post on your Facebook wall, Retweeting or putting the link on Google+. Consider this your Christmas gift to these young kids.

"Bilisan mo, pahiram ng sapatos. Eto na yung tsinelas." (Click the photo for the full story)

May we inspire the young athletes thru this small project. Again, thank you so much! *yakap na mahigpit*

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Updated as of December 16, 2:15pm

For transparency, I will publish here the shoes donated and funds raised and the person/group from where it came from.

Richard B (GSC)- P600
April G (Iligan City)-
Pamela Jane O (Iligan City)- P400
Beatrice G (Iligan City)- P500
Laiza L (GSC) – P800
Kathleen Grace dG – P800
Tet M – P1500
PEX Runners group – P3,500
Anonymous O- P1,500
Melai M- Php1,000
Anonymous EF- Php600
Aggy G- Php1,000
Anonymous Glad- Php1,000
Paula O- Php1,000
Chato A- Php2,000
Pie R- Php1,500
Gabz- US$14
Mary Grace- US$10
Gay E- US$10
Anonymous c/o Christine- Php300
Snails Aquathlon Pursuit funds- Php8,000
Accel Shoes thru Sir Albert A (PSC)- 5 brand new running shoes
Slightly used running shoes from OK OK Runners, Maui H, Reinell T.

WE HAVE RECEIVED ENOUGH DONATIONS IN CASH AND IN KIND. THANK YOU SO MUCH, WE HOPE THAT WE CAN DO THIS AGAIN NEXT YEAR.

But you can also deposit your donation to any of these:

BDO (Los Banos)
Account Name: Christine Joyce Betia (sister’s account)
Account Number: 5100-0393-62

GCASH
Christine Fernandez: 0917-822-6510

Paypal
To: journeyingjames@gmail.com -please tick the “I’m making personal payments” (i.e., shared expenses, rental charges, payment and others)

If you have made a deposit, please email a photo/scanned image of the deposit slip or anything that would help us track the deposit made. Thank you so much!

I will write another blog post regarding the success of this project. Let’s continue to support and inspire young local athletes.