Chicas Latinas de Sacramento is excited to announce our shoe-drive for a Sacramento area elementary school!

Make your monetary donation HERE (via Eventbrite) to provide a pair of shoes to a child at D.W. Babcock Elementary School!!!

When we ask school staff members what the students are most in need of when starting the new school year, we are often simply told, “shoes.” Shoes that fit and shoes in working condition… free of holes and torn soles. Back-to-school shoes, a basic need to most, are a luxury item to these children.

For that reason, Chicas Latinas members are hosting a shoe-drive and are asking the community to support "Starting off on the Right Foot," and rally together in an effort to provide shoes for these students as they enter into the new school year. Shoes must be new and should fit 5-12 year old students, boys and girls.

Deadline for monetary and NEW SHOE donations is September 1, 2018. Monetary donations will go 100% towards the purchase of new shoes for students at D.W. Babcock Elementary School.

Please share this event and consider asking your colleagues, friends, and family to donate $20 to provide a pair of shoes, or more. We have 100% confidence we can collect and provide over 600 pairs of shoes, with your help!

Drop-Off Locations and Drive Events TBA!

About “Starting Off on the Right Foot”

During the spring and summer months, Chicas Latinas de Sacramento holds a community donation-drive, to collect NEW shoes for the children at our sponsored school; this year, D.W. Babcock Elementary School. New shoe and monetary donations will be accepted at any of our drive events, additionally monetary donations will be accepted online and by mail. Chicas Latinas will host a “Starting Off on the Right Foot” distribution event at our sponsored school in early October, where bilingual volunteer and media opportunities will be available.

• 2014 – Hagginwood Elementary: Distributed 100+ pairs
• 2015 – Woodbine Elementary: Distributed 400+ pairs
• 2016 – Del Paso Heights Elementary: Distributed 500+ pairs

About D. W. Babcock Elementary

Households in this North Sacramento neighborhood are primarily lower-income. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this Sacramento community has an income lower than 87.8% of U.S. neighborhoods -- with 44.2% of the children below the federal poverty line.

D.W. Babcock Elementary school is part of the Twin Rivers School District.

We need to collect over 600 pairs of shoes in order to provide every child at D.W. Babcock elementary school with a new pair of shoes. Please consider supporting Chicas Latinas’ 2018 shoe drive, and help send Sacramento area children back-to-school on the right foot!