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# Shoe drive to kick off soon
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/shoe-drive-to-kick-off-soon/
- Published: 2004-09-01T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:00:07.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Promenade, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

While fashion is the concern for many children picking out new school shoes, some don’t even have new shoes, or even shoelaces to concern themselves with.

Shoppers will soon be urged to buy new children’s shoes and leave them at the malls at Santa Monica Place and Westside Pavilion in efforts to help kids whose families cannot afford such basic necessities.

Beginning September 10 and running through October 3 is the annual shoe drive, organized and distributed locally by Operation School Bell and the Buckner Orphan Care. The shoe drive will collect shoes, not only for local school children, but also for orphans in 30 different countries. Shoes will be distributed internationally by Buckner Orphan Care International.

Items should be dropped off at the Guest Services Center at Santa Monica Place Mall on Broadway at the end of the Third Street Promenade or at Westside Pavilion on Overland Avenue in West Los Angeles.

The Assistance League of Southern California helps provide clothes and literacy programs to underprivileged kids in an effort to improve their self-esteem. Buckner Orphan Care International similarly aims to help children in need around the world through donations and programs.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 1, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/090104.pdf?ref=smdp.com)