Our Beginning
After collecting shoes, backpacks with school supplies and some money to buy food from friends and family, we put everything as we could in a Jeep and set off for the orphanage “Palabra de Vida” located in the city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Thus began this project Zapatos Sin Fronteras in 2008. Since then, we have worked to bring shoes to children living in extreme poverty in different parts of Latin America every year. Together we have been able to deliver more than a thousand pairs of new shoes to children living in extreme poverty. We want you to join this cause and together we will change the footprint of the future of these children.
Please contact us if you want to donate money, shoes or help in some other way. There’s nothing like helping change the life of a child! Thank you!
We felt indescribable emotions when we saw how a pair of shoes can change the life of a child. Feet hold an important symbolism, they can lead us from evil to good, from defeat to victory; we can walk towards a better future. For a child who may have never have a new pair of shoes because of extreme poverty, getting one will completely change his life.
— Cesar Torres, Founder of Shoes Without Borders