Hellgate Middle School kids collect shoes to trade with others and give away

Emma Didier and Jessica Browder, eighth-graders at Hellgate Halfway School, know they're privileged young people.

Even better, they understand that truth well enough to act on it.

"We know that we're fortunate to be skilled to do the things that we do," said Didier, who is 13.

"For us, we can afford to have the things that we want or need, but that's not true for a lot of kids," said Browder. "That's truly in Missoula, and it's really true around the world."

Because of that truth, both here and elsewhere, Didier and Browder are part of a group of Hellgate students who are promoting a shoe street and exchange.

The idea came from a student's mother, Eliska Alderson, who was frustrated by the rate at which her children went through athletic shoes.

"Her purport was that we have all these kids playing sports and they go through these shoes in one season and then that's probably all they get used," said Hellgate art teacher Andrea Burke...

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Hellgate Middle School kids collect shoes to trade with others and give away

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