TAP AWAY AT LIFE'S JOYFUL MOMENTS

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it" Rene Descartes

It's not that I didn't know it was coming but May seems to just creep up on me. Choose To Care(CTC), the nonprofit, that provides a brand new pair of shoes for children in need, was almost caught off guard. Each month the organization travels to a different State to deliver much needed supplies to a public school of choice.

Through Donors Choose(donors choose.org), a trusted classroom funding site, teachers are given the opportunity to submit projects, requesting basic supplies, nationwide, for their students. Anyone has a chance to support a classroom of their choice also. We are heading to Los Angeles, California, to the Loyola Village Elementary School, where the Grades 3-5 teacher, Mrs O'Quinn, teaches.

She has dubbed her project:The Love Tap Club. She stated that she would like to create a lunch time tap club but only one student has her own tap shoes. This passionate teacher is pleading for proper shoes because the students are now practicing in tennis shoes.

CTC will happily fill that gap and assist these talented and eager to learn children, as their very supportive teacher described them.

As usual CTC is making a plea to all our supporters to keep Mother Earth green, Go discover for yourself what moves you and let's  do our part, no matter how small, to keep the environment as healthy as possible.

With deep Gratitude

GOING THE DISTANCE

 "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky" William Wordsworth

Choose To Care(CTC), the nonprofit was founded in 2008 with the mission to provide a brand new pair of shoes for the child in need.

Donors Choose(donors choose.org) is the organization that allows public teachers nationwide to apply for resources for their classroom. Anyone can contribute to this worthy cause.

The month of April found us heading to Oklahoma City. We responded to the PreK-2 teacher, Ms. Torres, from the Mark Twain Elementary School, who requested tennis shoes for her students. She described them as economically disadvantaged and are dependent on the community to provide them with essentials such as clothes and shoes during the school year.

CTC did not hesitate to answer the very kind and caring teacher. We know that this delivery would put a smile on their faces. We also believe that each child should have the resources they need to further their education. A good fitting pair of shoes can build confidence, while protecting the feet of the young children. Shoes that are worn out or do not fit correctly, could put them at risk for injuries, such as, blisters, calluses, and increased strain on their feet.

Of course, you the supporters have helped us to achieve our goals and we are filled with gratitude.

We also lean on you, to help us keep Mother Earth healthy. CTC uses its platform to promote the well-being of our environment and each of us is responsible to do our part, no matter how small, to save this planet.

Peace And Love

AN ABUNDANCE OF JOY

"What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean" - Isaac

I have said it out loud so many times that I am passionate about protecting the feet of the children with proper fitting shoes. We do this work through Choose To Care(CTC)(choostocaresite.org). This is a nonprofit that I founded in 2008. CTC's mission is to provide a brand new pair of shoes for the children in need, globally. However this is about more than shoes. We aim to improve the students lives, one pair of shoes at a time.

Each month CTC sponsors a public school teacher's classroom, nationwide, connecting with

Donors Choose(donors choose.org). This organization is a trusted teachers' sponsored nonprofit that makes it easy for anyone to assist a teacher who has presented a project requesting resources for the students, enabling them to have a chance to attain a great education.

For the month of March we are traveling with an abundance of joy to Weller Elementary School, Fairbanks, Alaska. Their very dedicated teacher, Ms. Janega, has requested, as the title of her project has stated:PE Shoes For Everyone! CTC is very happy to deliver.

We also use this platform to ask our supporters to adopt a planet friendly behavior. It's important to work every day to reduce our environmental footprint. It doesn't matter how small our contribution is. Thanks for joining toward a better planet.

We appreciate you dearly for your support of our efforts and mission.

PEACE AND LOVE

STEPPING CONFIDENTLY

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the journey begin! CHOOSE TO CARE(CTC), the nonprofit founded in 2008 with a mission to provide a brand new pair of shoes for the child and young adult in need, globally.

Donors Choose is a trusted teachers' sponsored nonprofit that makes it easy for anyone to help a teacher in need to enable students in every community to have the resources they need for a great education. 

Each month CTC finds a public school nationwide to assist with their needs. For the month of February we are traveling to Harvest Best Academy, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We have chosen the grades 3-5 classroom of Ms. Matthews. She wrote this about her students:"Wrestling teaches discipline and accountability within our students"  "Wrestling helps students have leadership within their own lives."

CTC would like to see these deserving students stepping confidently to find their space in this beautiful and sometimes harsh world of ours. We hope to improve the students lives, one pair of shoes at a time. These students that are gifted with a brand new pair of shoes will have the opportunity to travel to other schools and get a chance to compete. 

CTC also uses this chance to ask our supporters to care for Mother Earth. We are reaching out with a plea for you to adopt a friendly behavior towards the earth.

Thanks for joining our mission.

PEACE AND LOVE!

CREATING WHAT I DREAM OF

"Earth has no sorrow that Earth cannot heal" John Muir

January came around and we are all enjoying the festivities but Choose To Care(CTC) has an errand to run. CTC is a nonprofit that provides a brand new pair of shoes for children and young adults in need. Each month we visit Donors Choose website. This is a teacher-founded nonprofit that allows public school teachers nationwide, to request resources for their classrooms.

This month CTC is visiting Bronx High School for Medical Science, located in the Bronx, New York. Ms Mieses, the Grades 6-8 teacher presented the SHOES 4 BOWLERS initiative. She asked for high-quality bowling shoes for for her students, whom she said deserved to have the opportunity to enjoy the sport of bowling regardless of their financial situation.

We at CTC agreed and it was our honor to sponsor her classroom so that the students can participate in physical activities, encouraging a healthy lifestyle and social interaction. 

CTC is also passionate about saving the environment. We are appealing to everyone to do their part, no matter how small to protect Mother Earth.

A deeply appreciated thank you to our supporters for helping us to reach our monthly goal of sponsoring a public teacher's project. We hope you will come along as we continue to create what we dream of, that is making this a better world.

PEACE AND LOVE

SERVING UP JOY

This is a month of festivities and so the CHOOSE TO CARE(CTC) Team is in an extra cheerful mood to deliver athletic shoes for some deserving students.

CTC(choosetocaresite.org) is a nonprofit organization that provides a brand new pair of shoes for children in need, globally. Each month we sponsor a public school classroom project through DONORS CHOOSE(donors choose.org)

Donors Choose is a trusted classroom funding site for teachers in public schools nationwide. Mr. Thackeray, the teacher for Grades 6-8 students at Granite Park Junior High School, Salt Lake City, Utah, was passionate about looking out for his students. He stated that most of them are not in a position to purchase quality shoes for their practices and games, where they excel on the court and on the field. He wrote about a student wearing shoes that is too small and has torn-up soles that offer little or no protection for the feet or against the winter weather.

We at CTC are just as passionate about keeping Mother Earth green and hope you will join us to do whatever you can to boost this effort.

Thanks to our supporters for helping us to make a difference in the lives of so many children in need.

HAPPY  HOLIDAYS

PEACE AND JOY

Come Aboard With Us On The Kindness Train

 "The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night" - Rumi

A lot is going on in the world. Each day we are served up a load of news, that is hardly ever pleasant. But even in the craziest of times, the Choose To Care (CTC) team remains focused on our goal. CTC is a nonprofit that was founded in 2008 with a mission to provide a brand new pair of shoes for the child and young adult in need. 

Each month, through Donors choose(donorschoose.org), a nonprofit that provides resources for public school teachers, nationwide, we honor a teacher's request for her project. For the month of October, we are traveling to PS45, John There, Staten Island, NY. The very kind teacher, Mrs Midttveit, asked for help for her 3rd -5th grade students. She requested tap shoes for their tap lessons.  She is enthusiastic about bringing the art of dance to her deserving students and she feels that tap would be an engaging form of dance and a fun way to engage her students in some exercise. We are glad to deliver these tap shoes for children in need.

Despite the heavy weight of this year, these words sum up CTC and its supporters:

Kind hearts are the garden

Kind thoughts are the roots

Kind words are the blossoms

Kind deeds are the fruits

Melissa K. Sharp

We still have a favor to ask, while you are busy spreading kindness, please put in a good word about Mother Earth. Let everyone know that each of us has the responsibility to keep the planet we live on, in a healthy state.

Thanks for the incredible impact we are making together.

Peace and Love