STOMP Poverty Shoebox Campaign

Brief Description: 

ETP is asking for people around the nation to step up and take action against poverty! The Shoebox Campaign is a quick and easy way to be a part of the difference ETP is making in the lives of children locally and abroad! Partner with us by contributing today.

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How do I contribute?

  1. Determine the size shoe you wear
  2. Donate the amount of money equal to your shoe size!
  3. Help ETP stomp poverty!

Where is my money going?

In 2006, we built a single classroom in the village of Tonhon in Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa – a place where poverty is rampant and children are forgotten. The classroom was built to hold one single first grade class so young children could learn the basics. We don’t want to stop there...we want to FINISH THE SCHOOL! These young children deserve proper education and a chance to empower themselves to reach beyond the walls of poverty. Your gift will be used to add classrooms and complete the first elementary school ever built in this village. In addition to finishing the school, we will provide school supplies and educators and tutor local refugee children in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County.

A six year old child in Prince’s Town, Ghana fetching logs, a common chore for children in rural Africa.

The 1st grade classroom built by Empowering the Poor, Inc. in Tonhon, Côte d’Ivoire, 2006.

Empowering the Poor, Inc. distributed school supplies to the 1st grade class in Tonhon, Côte d’Ivoire in 2006

Overjoyed children surrounding Darius Coulibaly (Founder of ETP) in Princes Town, Ghana (2007)

A house in Prince’s Town, Ghana - typical community in poor sub Saharan Africa where ETP works (July 2007)

The 1st grade class in the new classroom in Tonhon, Côte D’Ivoire (2006)

Children from the village of Tonhon, Côte D’Ivoire

1st grade class is hard at work in their new classroom, built by ETP in 2006 (Tonhon, Côte D’Ivoire)

1st grade class in Tonhon, Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa

A typical elementary classroom in Sub-Saharan Africa with no walls or chairs for students (2007)