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How Philly's discarded shoes are saving lives in Haiti and Africa
When President Trump's "s-hole countries" remark made headlines earlier this year, Philly scrapper Ogbonna Hagins, a/k/a Philly Green Man, was particularly agitated. He has been helping immigrants who've settled in Philadelphia send shoes to their families in these long-impoverished, and lately defamed, regions of Africa and Haiti for the past decade.
Still other finds travel much farther, to sustain families in places like Haiti and Sierra Leone.
It turned out lots of other immigrants had the same idea — and Hagins wants to supply shoes to all of them.