Sited information taken from MSNBC.com

A Nashville-based nonprofit group is working with private companies to donate 10,000 pairs of new shoes to homeless people in the Miami area.Soles4Souls, Invicta and Red Wing Shoes will begin Tuesday morning by giving away 1,000 new shoes at Camillus House, a Miami homeless shelter.

Soles4Souls is giving away the new shoes to show its gratitude after they recently picked up thousands of shoes that were mysteriously spilled on a Miami expressway last month.Troy Jones, who received a new pair of shoes Tuesday, said it is a big help.

“If you have comfortable shoes on your feet you look good, you feel good and you have no problems, you know,” Jones said. “Shoes are very important. A lot of people can’t afford shoes.”

Wayne Elsey of Soles4Souls said people in the U.S. are in need of new shoes.

“We take it for granted,” he said. “We go to work everyday. We wear our great shoes. We are not in the situation that some people are. But more and more people everyday are hurting right around the corner here in the United States.”

The shoes from the Miami expressway were distributed to needy people in Haiti, which is still recovering from a devastating hurricane season. The shoe charity has distributed 100,000 pairs of shoes to Haitians in the past four months.

Other homeless agencies will received the shoes as well.

The shoe giveaway will begin at 10 a.m. and is expected to last for several hours.

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