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News Release

November 26, 2008

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Photos: Hearts to Souls 2008

UConn Health Center Staff Provide Foot Care for Local Homeless

NEW BRITAIN, CONN. – An effort to provide new shoes and foot care to people in need continues this Thanksgiving week, with the distribution of more than 3,000 pairs of new shoes at homeless shelters throughout the country. Our Hearts to Your Soles, a nonprofit with a mission of providing medical care and shoes to people in need worldwide, and Soles4Souls, a nonprofit that facilitates the donation of footwear, are the organizers of what has become an annual national initiative. Locally, Michael Aronow. M.D., an orthopedic foot surgeon, medical assistant Lori Engengro, and cast technician Kathleen York, all from the New England Musculoskeletal Institute at the University of Connecticut Health Center, volunteered at the Salvation Army on Franklin Square in New Britain Nov. 24. Nearly 30 local men left that night with a new pair of shoes, sneakers, boots or clogs.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/shoes1.jpg
Caption: As part of a nationwide Thanksgiving week effort to provide proper footwear and foot care to those in need, Lori Engengro, a medical assistant at the UConn Health Center’s New England Musculoskeletal Institute, volunteers at the Salvation Army in New Britain.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/shoes2.jpg
Caption: As part of a nationwide Thanksgiving week effort to provide proper footwear and foot care to those in need, Dr. Michael Aronow, an orthopedic foot surgeon at the UConn Health Center’s New England Musculoskeletal Institute, volunteers at the Salvation Army in New Britain.

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