MBK: IUPUI Coach, Players Will Take Shoes To Peru
A Follow up to IUPUI Head Coach's Ron Hunter and the Samaritan's Feet charity he talked about on The Show: With Greg Kampe.
"INDIANAPOLIS(AP) IUPUI basketball coach Ron Hunter, who went barefoot for a game last season, won't be able to deliver shoes to the poor in Nigeria this month because the U.S. State Department said it wouldn't be safe to go.
Instead, Hunter said his group will travel to Lima, Peru, on Thursday to deliver about 15,000 pairs of shoes.
Originally, a group of about 40 people from IUPUI and Samaritan's Feet, a charitable organization based in Charlotte, N.C., planned to deliver shoes and visit orphanages, schools and hospitals in Nigeria. Hunter and some of his players also planned to hold basketball clinics.
The shoes made it across the Atlantic Ocean, but the group won't. Samaritan's Feet spokesman Todd Melloh said Tuesday that the State Department contacted the charity to say the trip might be a bad idea.
The State Department Web site has a travel warning against going to the West African nation, saying unusually high levels of violence and crimes are committed there by police, militias and ordinary citizens.
``Nigeria has an unsettled situation,'' Melloh said. ``They (the State Department) intercepted communication that it was not going to be positive for our trip. It was almost like they were waiting for us.''" Read More
"INDIANAPOLIS(AP) IUPUI basketball coach Ron Hunter, who went barefoot for a game last season, won't be able to deliver shoes to the poor in Nigeria this month because the U.S. State Department said it wouldn't be safe to go.
Instead, Hunter said his group will travel to Lima, Peru, on Thursday to deliver about 15,000 pairs of shoes.
Originally, a group of about 40 people from IUPUI and Samaritan's Feet, a charitable organization based in Charlotte, N.C., planned to deliver shoes and visit orphanages, schools and hospitals in Nigeria. Hunter and some of his players also planned to hold basketball clinics.
The shoes made it across the Atlantic Ocean, but the group won't. Samaritan's Feet spokesman Todd Melloh said Tuesday that the State Department contacted the charity to say the trip might be a bad idea.
The State Department Web site has a travel warning against going to the West African nation, saying unusually high levels of violence and crimes are committed there by police, militias and ordinary citizens.
``Nigeria has an unsettled situation,'' Melloh said. ``They (the State Department) intercepted communication that it was not going to be positive for our trip. It was almost like they were waiting for us.''" Read More
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