That may sound like an unusual combination, but an African charity recently asked the LDS Young Adult Stakes to gather shoes that it plans to sell in Africa. Officials there will use that money to build a well for a village currently without a clean water supply.
The group finished up the collection during their annual New Year’s Eve get together held at the Idaho State University Student Union Wednesday night. There they filled a trailer with 100 huge garbage bags weighing 35 pounds each and in all totaling 4,000 shoes.