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If you're looking for a fun and rewarding community experience to participate in at this year's CoSIDA Convention, then volunteering to join the Goodwill & Wellness Committee at Samaritan's Feet is for you.
CoSIDA has partnered 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.
If you've never participated in a community service event at the CoSIDA Convention, then we encourage you to take a close look at this year's project and the non-profit organization CoSIDA will assist.
Need more convincing? Take it from your colleagues who participated in, and were inspired by, this event two years ago in Orlando:
“The last service event in Orlando with Samaritan’s Feet was my first introduction to the CoSIDA Goodwill and Wellness Committee. I was introduced to Samaritan’s Feet while working with the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference as we were the first NCAA conference to partner with the organization to hold an annual shoe distribute with our entire All-HCAC football team. I think this year’s event will be even better, supplying over 250 children in Orlando a new pair of shoes as well as tying our (CoSIDA) love of sports with a basketball skills camp. Please sign up and join us. You won't be disappointed!”
• Ryan Davis, Missouri Valley Conference
“The CoSIDA community service event is one thing that I look forward to each year. In 2015 when we served with Samaritans Feet in Orlando, it was a life-changing experience. To wash a child’s feet and give them a new pair of shoes, which could change their entire life, is really awe-inspiring. To think that such a seemingly small gesture could mean so much to a child, really changes your perspective on life. I can’t wait to serve with Samaritan's Feet again this year and look forward to it producing more life change moments.”
• Jess Poole, Ole Miss
"Having an opportunity to participate in the Samaritan's Feet project two years ago was life changing. We take for granted having a pair of shoes — and for most of us multiple pairs — when just one new pair of shoes meant the world to these kids. Interacting with them and seeing the smile on their faces is a memory that will last a lifetime for me."
• Joe Browning, UNC-Wilmington
"I look forward to the opportunity each year to participate in our CoSIDA Community Service Project. We are fortunate to be working with Samaritan’s Feet again this year in Orlando after a memorable experience in 2015. I walked away from this event knowing that we have made a difference in a child’s life."
• Chris Mitchell, Washington University in St. Louis
• 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.
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