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Students With "Heart and Sole" Turn Cookies Into Shoes
March 31, 2004
by Pat Grauer
Update: For more on this story, click here for an article in the Lansing State Journal.
Mary Hughes' high school mentor group at St. Jude Catholic Church in DeWitt transformed 800 homemade chocolate chip cookies into shoes for the world's poorest children.
| The students raised $575.00 from a Sunday bake sale to support the MSUCOM Shoe Project, Heart and Sole, which provides gently used shoes and boots to needy children and adults on three continents. |  Members of the high school mentor group at St. Jude Catholic Church raised $575 to support the MSUCOM's Heart and Sole shoe project. From left to right are Katherine Pavlak, mentor Mary Hughes, D.O., Kristen Eible, Kate Hughes, Katelyn Hunt and Anna Lyman. |
" We're so grateful for this gift," Cook said. "These young women worked hard to make a difference for people who needed it the most. The money they earned and donated will enable us to send hundreds of pairs of shoes."
All freshmen at DeWitt High School, the students also collected more than 100 pairs of tennis shoes and soccer shoes for children in Africa.
Dr. Hughes, professor of internal medicine at MSUCOM, has led this group of students for four years. She anticipates that the group will continue the Heart and Sole cookie project in future years.
For more information about Heart and Sole, contact Ann Cook, A314 E. Fee Hall, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1316; (517) 432-0493; cooka@msu.edu.
by Pat Grauer