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On In Focus, PHL17’s longstanding community affairs program airing Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 6:30 a.m. and Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 1 p.m. with Jennifer Lewis-Hall first on our show we talk with Camden County Commissioner Jon Young about a multi-phase demolition project in Camden New Jersey. He tells us about the Camden County Improvement Authority’s project that is underway to eliminate hundreds of abandoned properties in the City and how they say it seeks to enhance the health and welfare of residents in Camden.javascript:false

Then on In Focus, helping to keep children healthy and happy. Those are two of the goals of a nonprofit in our area called – Shoes For Your Soul. We hear how this local organization is walking into the lives of young children to provide them shoes. The organization’s founder says it has been life changing. Dawn Lewis, the nonprofit’s President and CEO tells us about Shoes For You Soul.

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https://aldianews.com/articles/leaders/non-profits/shoes-your-soul-provides-shoes-youth-philly-and-south-jersey-step-out#off-canvas

Link: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2020/11/12/nonprofit-helps-camden-kids-put-their-best-feet-forward-shoes-for-your-soul-pennsauken-south-jersey/6236172002/

About 100 children in South Jersey were able to pick out shoes for free thanks to a donation from Macy’s to the nonprofit Shoes for Your Soul at Cherry Hill Mall on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021.

CAMDEN, NJ — Even today, Dawn Lewis — a mother and founder of “Shoes for Your Soul” — recalls one of her non-profit’s early visits with Camden students. 

It was Catto School over a year ago, and she remembers one young man in particular who made an impression on her.

“He must have been 13 or 14,” Lewis said. “This was of course back when we could visit schools. Now, before we give out shoes or socks, we always size the children first. I asked him what size he was, and he said he was wearing an 8…it turned out he was actually a size 10. I asked him if his feet hurt, and he said sometimes. ‘How could someone concentrate like that?’ I remember thinking.”

Read more: https://www.tapinto.net/towns/camden/sections/giving-back/articles/shoes-for-your-soul-happy-to-mark-return-to-camden-this-weekend