I was watching TNT’s Inside The NBA (May 11 episode) earlier and the show’s hosts (Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley) weren’t wearing any shoes. Charles Barkley even had his toenails painted red. Heh. The reason for their not wearing shoes is to raise awareness for Samaritan’s Feet. And no, this isn’t a sponsored post. Hehe.

Samaritan’s Feet’s mission is to give 10 million impoverished children worldwide 10 million shoes in 10 years. Taken from the organization’s website, “Samaritan’s Feet is a humanitarian non-profit organization dedicated to taking a life-changing message of hope to people and equipping the feet of impoverished children in the US and around the world with shoes.” The founder of the organization, Manny Ohonme, received his first pair of shoes when he was 9 years old. To think most of us already had our first pair even before we were born.

I don’t like walking around the house without my slippers on. Imagine the people who have to walk around outside barefoot because they don’t have anything to put on. Imagine them walking barefoot under the burning rays of the sun. Imagine them walking on grounds that have things that can injure them. Have you seen asphalt roads when the temperature’s really high? Yes? Walking barefoot on the beach is hard enough. Imagine people walking barefoot on asphalt.

Having shoes is not as important as having food to eat, but I think it’s great that there’s an organization such as Samaritan’s Feet. I don’t have anything I can donate right now and posting about this doesn’t really count as “spreading the word” cause I don’t really have a lot of people dropping by here, but, I certainly hope Samaritan’s Feet, together with all the people who are trying to help the impoverished around the world (including those in the Philippines) in different ways, succeed.