2023 Sneaker Drive for Children

Imagine a child who can't join a soccer team, play basketball, run track, or who faces ridicule from their peers. Imagine children with no sneakers, whose sneakers have holes, or whose sneakers are two sizes too small. These are the stories The Sharing Shelf received from Port Chester's Carver Center. The Carver Center offers after school programming for the children of Port Chester, but found that many children could not participate due to a lack of proper footwear.

The Sharing Shelf is looking for volunteers to help meet this basic need and ensure more children county-wide have this essential item. Volunteers are asked to select a child or children from the Sharing Shelf's list and purchase a pair of athletic sneakers in their size. With volunteer help, these children will be able to join their peers in team-building activities!

This is a self-directed project. To volunteer:

1. Express interest below to record this opportunity in your Volunteer New York! profile and to alert the volunteer coordinator.
2. Click here to view the list of children in need of sneakers and to select a child (or children) you want to help.
3. Purchase the new athletic sneakers on their child's wish list.
4. On a slip of paper attached to the box, write the child's name and corresponding code.
5. Bring your donation to one of the following drop-off sites no later than January 31:
   
   Mondays & Wednesdays from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
   Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
   The Sharing Shelf
   47 Purdy Avenue
   Port Chester, NY 10573
   
   Monday-Sunday from 6:30 a.m.–11 p.m.
   Tennis Professionals (inside Westchester Tennis Center)
   303 Boston Post Road, Port Chester NY 10573
   
   Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
   Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
   Sportech
   124 South Ridge Street
   Rye Brook, NY 10573