OUR HISTORY

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Founder Ryan Jasper, while on a surfing trip to Nicaragua in 2009, was burdened by the sight of children rummaging through garbage dumps looking for food. Due to the extreme poverty that drove families to such desperation, these children were also walking through these dangerous conditions with bare feet.

 

Ryan knew he had to do something. As a CEO of a retail company with 17 surf shops in Florida, Ryan began talking with distributors about donating unused or defective shoes to deliver to the villages in Nicaragua. On June 26, 2010, Ryan and a small group of volunteers placed shoes on the feet of 500 children in La Chureca, Nicaragua - and with that small act of love, Beautiful Feet was born. Though Beautiful Feet began with meeting a basic physical need, over the years the need of a more comprehensive strategy became apparent. Since 2010, the rally cry to “Fight Physical and Spiritual Poverty across the world” has brought Beautiful Feet to where it is today:

A HANDS-ON, COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO LIFT COMMUNITIES OUT OF POVERTY.