Ghana

Ankoma Outreach

August 2023 – Whilst we predominantly find new owners for preloved children’s shoes, because hardworking feet in shoes are protected feet, and because we collect all sorts of practical footwear in all sorts of sizes; your preloved Crocs are still going strong on the feet of someone special a few years after they were distributed in the village of Ankoma, in the Kwahu-Eastern mountains of Ghana, West Africa thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

Ankoma Outreach

April 2023 – It’s a fnding new feet Friday. Your Sal’s school Shoes are back in education in a village in Ghana thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

Ankoma Outreach

March 23 – We’ve worked really hard over the last 9 years, as we’ve grown, to maintain the premise on which we were founded; ensuring we know exactly where your Sal’s Shoes find their new feet. In our first year, we collected just under 5,000 pairs of shoes and found them new feet in 8 countries around the world. Last year, over 1,000,000 pairs of Sal’s Shoes found their new owners in 20 countries around the world – including here in the U.K. Last month we received Mrs Hinch’s son’s (Ron and Len) preloved shoes – outgrown before they’ve been outworn. This month, the weather appropriate pairs have started finding their new feet in a small village in Ghana, West Africa, thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

Akwaaba Volunteers

March 23 – “Your sports shoes are back in school. Akwaaba Volunteers have been finding new feet for your preloved shoes – outgrown before they’ve been outworn – in Ghana. We are in the fortunate position of being offered lots of wonderful things free to a good home. Whilst we are aware of our limitations and tend to stick to shoes; sometimes there are exceptions. When we find new feet for so many school and sports shoes, it makes sense for us to accept and rehome teams worth of sports kit amongst some of the students we help support. Thanks to Caterham School and Caterham Prep School and their donation of old style school branded sports kit that had been piling up in their Nearly New Uniform shops, each child in Years 1-9 (aged 6-16) – over 300 pupils – at the Future Leaders School in Accra, Ghana has received sports kit for PE lessons and tournaments. Students who take part in physical activities have proved to be happier and healthier than those students who spend all their time doing school work. Many of the girls at Future Leaders frequently don’t attend PE lessons as they don’t have anything suitable to wear. Supported by Akwaaba Volunteers, Future Leaders provide all their pupils with books, uniforms, Sal’s Shoes, transport to and from school and two meals each day so that no child goes hungry. After a successful day of trying on and fitting items in the classrooms, this sports kit will be back on the sports pitches where it belongs next week.”

Mehiel Foundation & Okwawucity Soccer Academy

March 23 – “These young boys aged 5,6 & 8, work by the roadside of one of the football academies we help support in rural Ghana. They watch the older boys training. These kids can’t go to training sessions, because their parents need them to work. They help clear the vegetation in the fields. They work barefoot cutting the vegetation back with machetes. The coach at Okwawu City Soccer Academy fitted them with your pre-played in football boots. Mehiel Foundation has given them a football and now when they’re not working they can now play football like the bigger kids they watch attending the academy.”

Mehiel Foundation, Kicking Off & Okwawucity Soccer Academy

March 23 – “Your Sal’s Shoes football boots are back on the pitch in Ghana and practicing for the Mehiel Foundation tournament with Kicking Off and Okwawu City Soccer Academy.”

Ankoma Outreach

26 February 2023 – “The teddy bear – a traditional and timeless toy providing comfort and companionship, and a friend to talk to. Whilst we predominantly find new feet for children’s preloved shoes, sometimes we get the offer of gifts stuffed full of love, outgrown by their first owners, but ready to find new hands to be held by.
Thanks to a few private donations, these soft toys are now in the arms of their new owners in a rural area in Ghana, West Africa, thanks to Ankoma Outreach. (There may have been whispered apologies to the teddies from the grown ups at HQ whilst packing them securely for their long journey. We ensured they were as comfortable as possible before setting off).”

Ankoma Outreach

23 February 2023 – Smiles as your Sal’s Shoes find their new feet at a school in Accra, Ghana thanks to Akwaaba Volunteers.

Mehiel Foundation

20 February 2023 – Your Sal’s Shoes football boots are back on the pitch at Okwawu city soccer academy – empowering children in Ghana to realise their full potential through the power of sport.

Ankoma Outreach

18 February 2023 – Saturday smiles as your Sal’s Shoes find their new feet. Your preloved Crocs are on the feet of their new owners in rural Ghana thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

Akwaaba Volunteers

8 February 2023 – Off with the outworn (the toes have been patched where they’ve been worn through) and on with your outgrown. Sal’s Shoes have been finding their new feet in Ghana thanks to Akwaaba Volunteers.

Akwaaba Volunteers

4 February 2023 – “It’s a swapping sliders for soccer boots Saturday amongst these young players in Accra, Ghana thanks to the Street 2 School Soccer Programme (S2S) run by Akwaaba Volunteers.
S2S aims to use the power of sport to encourage young people to invest in themselves, their education and the sport they love. Every week S2S focuses on education, sports, health and wellbeing, and character development. Tuesday – Friday they run training sessions for 6 different age groups from U6 – U17, Monday evening the children attend a class run by volunteer teachers so their educational progress can be kept track of, and at the weekend they organise matches in the community. Your Sal’s Shoes pre played in football boots are about to get back on the pitch.”

Akwaaba Volunteers

6 January 2023 – Too cool for school. Your Sal’s Shoes trainers are finding their new feet amongst the pupils at a school in Accra, Ghana thanks to Akwaaba Volunteers

Akwaaba Volunteers

22 December 2022 – “Your Sal’s sports Shoes are back on the court in Accra, Ghana thanks to the netball project run by Akwaaba Volunteers.
The role of netball as a tool for female empowerment in Ghana is an important one:
16% of girls in Ghana are never enrolled in school
17%of girls aged 15-24 are illiterate
34% of girls are involved in child labour
20% of girls are married before the age of 18
53% of adolescent females are victims of wife beating or abuse
There are over 60,000 children living on the streets of Accra. Girls under the age of 10 represent 59% of this total number. Akwaaba Volunteers are using the power of sport to empower young girls across Ghana’s capital. Sport as a force that can amplify women’s voices and tear down gender barriers and discrimination. Women in sport defy the misconception that they are weak or incapable. Every time a girl intercepts a ball or scores a goal they are demonstrating physical strength, leadership and strategic thinking and are taking a step towards gender equality.”

Kit 4 Kenya - Akwaaba Volunteers & England Football Team

16 December 2022 – “Whilst we’re now in the very fortunate position of being offered lots of lovely things free to a good hone, we’re aware of our limitations and tend to stick to shoes. One of the exceptions we have made is sports kit. We get so many Sal’s sports Shoes back on the playing field, it makes sense, when we’re offered teams worth of kit, to kit out players head to toe.
Thanks to Kit 4 Kenya and the England football team these young players at the Street 2 School Soccer Programme (S2S) run by Akwaaba Volunteers in Accra, Ghana have just been kitted out.
S2S aims to use the power of sport to encourage young people to invest in themselves, their education and the sport they love. Every week S2S focuses on education, sports, health and wellbeing, and character development. Tuesday – Friday they run training sessions for 6 different age groups from U6 – U17, Monday evening the children attend a class run by volunteer teachers so their educational progress can be kept track of, and at the weekend they organise matches in the community. As well as kit, S2S also provides Sal’s Shoes football boots to train in, health insurance, family support for those who need it, and educational scholarships so that they can ensure every child is going to school. Your Sal’s Shoes football boots are about to find their new owners amongst these smartly dressed players.”

Mehiel Foundation

16 November 2022 – “Your Sal’s Shoes football boots are about to get back on the pitch in a village in rural Ghana at Okwawu city soccer academy – a soccer academy for street children that pays for the children to receive an education, feeds them, and coaches them after school and at weekends to keep them off the streets.”

Ankoma Outreach

8 August 2022 – It’s been a weekend of finding new feet for your preloved Crocs in the village of Ankoma in rural Ghana thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

Forever Foundation

4 August 2022 – Why we do what we do . . . and the very reason we ask for no holes in soles, often that’s exactly what your Sal’s Shoes are replacing. Your preloved Crocs have been finding their new owners in Uganda with Forever Foundation UK.

Ankoma Outreach

29 July 2022 – “t’s been a finding new feet Friday in rural Ghana. Thanks to Ankoma Outreach your preloved Crocs have found their new owne”

Ghana

15 July 2022 – Finding new feet Friday and your Sal’s Shoes are back in school in Ghana.

Tema

8 July 2022 – Finding new feet Friday and happy feet are dancing feet, at this newly built preparatory school in Tema, Ghana. Your Sal’s school Shoes are back in education

Tema

6 July 2022 – Your Sal’s Shoes are back in education at a recently opened preparatory school in Tema, a city on the Bight of Benin and Atlantic coast, and Ghana’s largest seapor.

Tema

4 July 2022 – “Work and play. Your Sal’s school Shoes are getting ready to find their new feet at a school in Ghana. Your Sal’s football boots will also be getting back on the pitch.”

Tema

21 April 2022 – Your Sal’s school Shoes are about to find their new feet at a primary school in Tema, Ghana.

CharityZ

21 January 2022 – “It’s finding new feet Friday in Ghana with CharityZ. Your Sal’s school Shoes are back where they belong.”

Ghana

January 2022 – Your Sal’s Shoes are starting to find their new feet amongst a small farming community in Kpaku Akura, Ghana.

Ghana

January 2022 – Your outgrown, but not outworn, Sal’s Shoes have been finding their new owners in the village of Kofininya, Ghana.

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January 2022 – The new owners of your shoes are now taking their first steps in a small village called Kofininya, in Ghana, West Africa.

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January 2022 – Your Sal’s school Shoes are going back to school as well – in Ghana.

Ghana

January 2022 – Your Sal’s Shoes have found their new owners and are walking again thanks to Ankoma Outreach in the rural village of Ankoma in Ghana, West Africa.

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December 2021 – We’ve been finding new feet in Ghana over the festivities for the smallest and the biggest of your Sal’s Shoes – in the capital city of Accra with Akwaaba Volunteers and in the rural village of Ankoma with Ankoma Outreach – because feet in shoes are protected feet wherever they are.

Kwahu District Ghana

December 2021 – Your Sal’s Shoes have been finding their festive feet in Ghana on the most magical of days with Ankoma Outreach.

Ghana

December 2021 – Your Sal’s Shoes are finding their new feet in the rural village of Ankoma in Ghana thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

Ghana

December 2021 – Sal’s Shoes football boots are back on the pitch in Ghana thanks to Akwaaba Volunteers.

Ghana

November 2021 – Akwaaba Volunteers have been finding new owners for your #salsshoes and #clemiesclothes in Accra, Ghana because we believe children need the magic of make believe wherever they are in the world.

Ghana

November 2021 – Your Sal’s Shoes football boots are back on the pitch at the Street 2 School Soccer Programme run by Akwaaba Volunteers in Accra, Ghana alongside these pre played in goalkeeper gloves we were delighted to pass on to their new owners from The Glove Bank.

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November 2021 – Finding the smallest of new feet for the smallest of your Sal’s Shoes in Ghana this morning with Akwaaba Volunteers.

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November 2021 – Your Sal’s Shoes football boots are back on the pitch and on the feet of young Ronaldo and his teammates in the U8 football team at the Street to School Soccer programme run by Akwaaba Volunteers in Accra, Ghana.

Ghana

November 2021 – Your Sal’s sports Shoes are back on the netball court in Ghana thanks to Akwaaba Volunteers and their Empowering Girls Through Sport programme.

Ghana

November 2021 – Shoes on soles and smiles on faces – your Sal’s Shoes have been finding their new feet in rural Ghana with Ankoma Outreach.

Ghana

July 2021 – The best team isn’t the team with the best players, but the team that plays best together. Your Sal’s Shoes are back on the netball court in Ghana thanks to Akwaaba Volunteers.

Labadi, Accra

Your trainers have found their new feet and are in netball training with the girls netball team at the Street to School [S2S] Soccer Programme run by Akwaaba Volunteers in Ghana 🇬🇭 S2S is a community sports development initiative based in Labadi, Accra. The programme aims to use the power of sport to encourage young people to invest in themselves, their education and the sport they love.

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Labadi, Accra

Ada, Dangme East District

January 2021 – Schools have reopened in Ghana 🇬🇭 this week after 10 months in a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19, and your outgrown Sal’s school Shoes were ready and waiting to be fitted by Little Tokens Foundation and give these students at a school in Ada, an area in the Dangme East District, an extra spring in their step as they skipped back into education 📚

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Ankoma

December 2020, your Sal’s Shoes have been finding their new feet in the village of Ankoma, Ghana 🇬🇭 in West Africa 🌍 thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

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Ankoma in the Kwahu East District

December 2020, in September this year we received a donation of just under 2,000 pairs of Sal’s Shoes from Marks and Spencer – some of the pairs we received have just found their new owners in the rural village of Ankoma, Ghana 🇬🇭 thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

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Ankoma

Christmas Day 2020 owners in the village of Ankoma, rural Ghana with http://ankomaoutreach.co.uk 🇬🇭

A teddy bear knows all your secrets . . . and never shares them 🧸
Earlier this year an attic clear out revealed 90 much loved soft toys and a private donation to Sal’s Shoes.
This Christmas they’ve found their new owners in Ghana, West Africa 🇬🇭 thanks to Ankoma Outreach.

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Accra

December 2020, your #clemiesclothes found their new owners just in time to ensure a whole lot of princesses were in attendance at todays’s Christmas party 🎄hosted by Akwaaba Volunteers 👑 in Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭

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Ankoma in the Kwahu East District

December 2020, we’re starting to find new feet in the village of Ankoma in the Kwahu East District in southern Ghana with Ankoma Outreach
Ankoma has 2 primary schools, 2 junior schools, many churches, 2 mosques and several shops. Kwahu-Tafo is Ankoma’s nearest town, found down a 10km dirt track 🇬🇭

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Accra

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November 2020 , Superhero Saturday morning in their #clemiesclothes on the soccer pitch ⚽️ in Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭 thanks to Akwaaba Volunteers 🦸‍♂️ – and si some are small but everybody wants to be Spider-Man or Superman [so many s’s] 😊

University of Legon

November 2020, we received a generous donation of running shoes from On. Thanks to Akwaaba Volunteers, Sal’s running Shoes are on the athletics track on the feet of the Accra girls running club that trains at the University of Legon in Ghana 🇬🇭 The club includes complete beginners and national athletes who are hoping to compete for Ghana internationally. All the athletes regardless of their running level, are expected to be able to provide their own equipment from sports shoes through to sports bras.
On the day of distribution, 3 girls had no shoes to run in and were watching from the sidelines. This is the first donation the club has ever received.
One of the girls has a marathon this week, she’s going to be wearing her Sal’s Shoes to race in

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Labadi, Accra

November 2020, It’s a finding new feet Friday for your Sal’s Shoes with Akwaaba Volunteers at their Street 2 School Soccer Programme – a community sports development initiative based in Labadi, Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭

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Labadi, Accra

November 2020, It’s a finding new feet Friday for your Sal’s Shoes with Akwaaba Volunteers at their Street 2 School Soccer Programme – a community sports development initiative based in Labadi, Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭

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Nkyenenkyene Primary School

January 2020, your Sal’s school Shoes were back in education at Nkyenenkyene Primary School in the Eastern Region near Lake Volta, in Ghana 🇬🇭

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