Teens deliver 400 pairs of new shoes to underserved students in Arizona

CHANDLER, Ariz. — “We’ll commencement with the Converse,” said Sam Bregman to his crew. “As much abstraction opens up, you tin enactment those pairs up.”

Seventeen-year-old Sam Bregman with the Bregman section of Shoes That Fit orchestrated the heartfelt giveaway astatine San Marcos Elementary School connected Friday.

“It’s a large mode to commencement the morning,” said 1 volunteer.

Over the past fewer months, Bregman collected implicit $14,000 successful donations from businesses similar Arcadia Management. They past turned and purchased hundreds of pairs of caller shoes astatine wholesale costs.

“So inside, we person a missive to each student, signed by myself oregon idiosyncratic other connected the team, we person our caller Bomba socks, and past nether is the brace of sneakers,” said Bregman showing america the footwear boxes kid receives. “The kid's reactions are priceless, the screams of joy, holding up the shoes proudly to their friends and teachers, it conscionable warms your heart.”

The amusive rapidly began arsenic students lined up with tickets successful hand, listing their footwear size.

“We person immoderate boys 3 shoes. They’re going to beryllium getting immoderate Nikes,” said Bregman arsenic we walked implicit to the monolithic show of shoes.

A rubric 1 school, much than 40% of the students astatine San Marcos travel from low-income households. Allowing families to prevention a subordinate present and determination goes a agelong way.

“You know, each these kids, look astatine them, they’re each happy, and that’s each we tin bash is bring them happiness, you know,” said unpaid Emy Edmonds.

By the extremity of the event, much than 400 pairs of brand-new shoes and 2,000 pairs of socks volition extremity up successful the hands of students who request them most.

Second-grade teacher Lauren Delfino-Karl watched arsenic her students showed disconnected and, of course, tried retired their caller kicks.

“Especially this clip of year, a small thing to conscionable springiness them immoderate hope, immoderate excitement,” said Delfino-Karl.

It’s the 2nd lawsuit Sam enactment connected past year, and it won’t beryllium the last. The lawsuit volition past done the illustration of selflessness acceptable by those making this time possible.

Bregman says they’re present looking to commencement up an yearly 5K tally to rise wealth and let them to enactment connected an lawsuit similar this each azygous year.

Cameron Polom astatine KNXV archetypal reported this story.