Throughout the winter and spring months, we will showcase different aspects of the upcoming 2017 CoSIDA Convention (June 11-14) in a "Convention InSIDer Spotlight" series.
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Today, we focus on the Goodwill and Wellness Committee's annual community service project. The annual community service endeavor, which takes place in the CoSIDA convention city during the annual event, is coordinated by the hard-working members of CoSIDA's Goodwill and Wellness Committee.
If you have never participated in one of the community service events at a convention, then we encourage you to take a close look at this year's project and the non-profit organization CoSIDA will assist.
For the second time in convention community service history, CoSIDA partners with Samaritan's Feet (
www.samaritansfeet.org) for a shoe distribution and basketball skills camp on Tuesday, June 13. The basketball camp and shoe distribution, which will provide sneakers to nearly 300 children, takes place in downtown Orlando at the Frontline Outreach. Note:
CoSIDA will provide transportation (and lunch) to and from the hotel to Frontline Outreach for all registered volunteers.
• CoSIDA Goodwill Wellness Committee community service project
Frontline Outreach and Samaritan's Feet event/Tuesday, June 13
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Read more about this year's community service project HERE.
CoSIDA partnered with Samaritan's Feet in 2015 as well. Samaritan's Feet, led by president and internationally-recognized humanitarian Manny Ohonme, works in impoverished communities throughout the world washing the feet of children and adorning them with new shoes. Since its inception in 2003, Samaritan's Feet has reached five million-plus children in 70 nations.
This is the eighth community service project organized and coordinated by the Goodwill and Wellness Committee in the past nine years. The community service projects started in San Antonio and the 2009 convention, followed by projects in San Francisco (2010), St. Louis (2012), Orlando (2013, 2014, 2015) and Dallas (2016).
If you have any questions about the Goodwill and Wellness Committee or the community service project please contact Chris Mitchell at
mitchell@wustl.edu or call (314) 935-5077.