Mona Purdy is the heart and soul of an effort to make the world a little more comfortable for thousands of children and adults . She is the founder of Share Your Soles , an organization dedicated to getting shoes to people living in Third World countries. Over the years, Purdy has shipped tens of thousands of shoes to people who would otherwise go without them . When she created the organization Purdy had no doubt that it would grow to the national and international dimension it has become. Distributed over the floor of a 297,000-square-foot donate shoes, used and new, that will be shipped to countries like the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Honduras, Haiti, and other where the need is dire, even for the shipping boxes.