High School Students Save Soles As a Way to Help Out Islanders

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PITTSBURGH - Like many of his classmates at Bishop Canevin High School, Sean Conway had never heard of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia until a teacher asked for the students' help.

Canevin physics teacher Russell Del Vecchio had visited the island over the summer to help teach classes in leadership and learned that many of the students and their family members each owned just one pair of shoes.

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High School Students Save Soles As a Way to Help Out Islanders

Because shoes are so costly, they were reserved for school, work and church. The rest of the time, people walked barefoot, sometimes for miles on hot pavement.

So on the first day of school...

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