House to House (H2H) is a small not for profit organization that helps people in Israel in a very hands-on way. Their Project Happy Feet provides shoes for school children whose parents do not have the means to provide them (see photo). Darla, who runs the organization, buys the shoes to size and distributes them herself to the parents. She also helps families deal with all the other problems that poverty causes. During the last year HOT has made almost $20,000 in grants to H2H for it to buy food and medicine, shoes for both children and adults, school supplies, monthly food vouchers, and in one case a refrigerator.
As their feet grow children need new shoes. At $16.39 per pair (purchased at wholesale and converted from shekels) two hundred children ($3,278) can have a new pair of sneakers; $4,958 will buy 100 pairs of shoes for adults. And designated gifts of all or part of $20,000 would give HOT the financial flexibility to respond to the requests for grants to buy food and medicine that come throughout the year.