Delta Kappa Gamma members prepare shoes for African children
On Monday, Psi Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma met at the Marshalltown Public Library for a late afternoon time of fellowship, Valentine refreshments, honoring the society founders and doing a service project.
President Mary Harris conducted an oral fill-in-the-blank quiz to refresh member’s memory of their founding. Dr. Annie Webb Blanton along with 11 outstanding women educators founded the society in Austin, Texas on May 11, 1929. Delta Kappa Gamma International promotes professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education.
Alta Bolhoefer, Bonnie Bradbury, Harris, Mary Jane Hazelwood, Rose Ann Jero, LuAnn Lura, Rachel Nelson-Loupee and Mary Schendel had a shoe cutting party during the meeting. They cut out patterns, cut jeans apart, traced the patterns and cut out the shoe parts for Sole Hope. Many children in Africa have no shoes to protect their damaged feet from entrance of many diseases and parasites.
The shoes cut out Monday evening will be sent to Uganda and then assembled by Ugandans who are in desperate need of a sustainable income to help provide for their families. Sole Hope pays a fair wage for these shoes and places them on the feet of needy children after foot washing/jigger removal at clinics.