After seeing children attend nursery wearing winter boots during the summer months, manager of Angel Pre-school Christel Brown took to social media to ask shoe companies if they could donate shoes for disadvantaged children.
Brown was delighted when not-for-profit organisation Sal’s Shoes stepped forward to donate 24 pairs of new shoes to the pre-school, which is based in a deprived part of the London borough of Westminster and is part of London Early Years Foundation (LEYF).
Like food poverty, shoe poverty is on the rise and is the kind of poverty that impacts children’s confidence and their self-esteem as they notice they are different to their peers. Charities fear that the pandemic-induced recession will make the situation worse.
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