ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

The Foundation was established on the basis of charitable aid projects in developing countries. People, and especially children in these countries, lack equipment for their leisure activities. In our case, we want to provide them with soccer cleats or sports shoes.

The unfortunate reality is that there are millions of children and adults around the globe that don’t have any footwear in usable condition. Shoes4Life acts as the facilitator and connector of your old shoes that never get used anymore and the opportunity for someone else to have and use a pair of athletic shoes. Through its operations, we unifies the world, providing access to opportunities of experiencing sports to the less fortunate.

The aim is to promote sports and football around the world. In the rich countries of Europe and the world, there is a lot of second-hand material available which, if donated, will bring additional benefits to many. We cooperate with charities, clubs, volunteers and public institutions all over the world.

Principle

THE PATH OF YOUR SHOES

1. STEP

Choose which of the current Shoes4Life projects you want to support. Information about which kind of shoes we need is available at each project.

2. STEP

Clean shoes (in usable condition) bring or send by mail to the Czech Football Players Association or to any collection point of your nearest player association. Contact us for more informations.

3. STEP

We carefully check, classify and distribute your shoes to the locations you have selected. With small projects, you can send your shoes yourself.

4. STEP

If you have your own project (you are running a sportsclub, a low-threshold club or similar activity, for example, within a child’s home) and shoes will help you to develop your own project.

5. STEP

Your shoes arrived to its destination to help.

Principle

THE PATH OF YOUR SHOES

1. STEP

Choose which of the current Shoes4Life projects you want to support. Information about which kind of shoes we need is available at each project.

2. STEP

Clean shoes (in usable condition) bring or send by mail to the Czech Football Players Association or to any collection point of your nearest player association. Contact us for more informations.

3. STEP

We carefully check, classify and distribute your shoes to the locations you have selected. With small projects, you can send your shoes yourself.

4. STEP

If you have your own project (you are running a sportsclub, a low-threshold club or similar activity, for example, within a child’s home) and shoes will help you to develop your own project.

5. STEP

Your shoes arrived to its destination to help.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

Select the project and get the appropriate footwear (usable and clean) to bring or send to one of our collection points. Or you can leave on us to who and where your shoes will help.

Contact us and help with us!

    Shoes4Life Foundation

    You don’t have shoes for us, but you want to support us? We will use the donated funds for the costs associated with the activities of the foundation.

    BANK:  UNICREDIT BANK CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA, A.S.
    IBAN: CZ2827000000002113105879
    SWIFT: BACXCZPP

    Projects

    Who could use your shoes right now? Find the project you want to support.

    MY OWN PROJECT

    The Shoes4life project can help to you too. If you have your own project (you are running a sports club, a low-threshold club or similar activity, for example, within a child’s home) and shoes will help you to develop your project, sign up for it!

    Ambassadors

    Markéta Vochoska Haindlová – Founder

    Markéta is an attorney-at-law and the President of the Czech Football Players‘ Association, who after completing the LL.M. program at the University of Zurich has become a leading expert in sports law in Europe. Thanks to the experience gained during her studies and her position as the chairwoman of the Appeals and Review Committee of the Football Association of the Czech Republic, she participated in the establishment of the Czech Football Players Association, which she currently heads. She also currently serves on the board of the European Division of the FIFPRO World Players‘ Union, where she was elected in the summer of 2021, and as an expert on doping issues she is a member of the Board of the National Court of Arbitration for Sport. She is also the proud mother of two children, Johanna and Nicholas. Markéta wants to help others, so beyond sports consultancy and legal assistance, she has set up the Shoes4life Foundation to help those who cannot otherwise afford it.

    Andrea Vlčková – Project Manager

    Andrea has been the project manager of the Shoes4Life Foundation and the Czech Association of Football Players since 2021 and is also the director of the Czech Women in sport association.As a former professional athlete who has been involved in football since childhood, she is very close to sport and everything around it. Andrea studied International Relations and European Studies and her second mother tongue is German. Apart from the above, she is a proud mother of a little daughter Amelia, who also loves sports, and that is why Andrea cares very much about the future of the Czech sports environment and tries to teach her daughter to help others selflessly by engaging in charity projects.

    Barbora Krejčíková – Ambassador

    Bára is czech professional tennis player, who is a former world number two in singles and world number one in doubles, having spent nineteen weeks in this position over three periods. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she became the Olympic champion in women’s doubles with Katerina Siniakova. They both won the first gold medal for the Czech Republic in tennis from under the five rings.

    She provides regular contributions to the Shoes4life project with her shoes, in which she has played world tournaments.

    Vladimír Šmicer – Ambassador

    Another Shoes4life ambassador is a Czech football international and a former manager of the Czech national football team, who scored in three European Championships while winning a medal in two of them, the Champions League winner 2004/2005, UEFA Cup and SuperCup winner 2000/2001 representing Liverpool FC, French champion 1997/1998 with RC Lens and three-times Czech champion with Slavia Prague.

    “I like the idea of this project. I plan on supporting it in the future as well. We live in a world full of consumerism where most of us have special shoes for the gym, for football, different shoes for running. Unfortunately, not all of us are so lucky. To donate shoes is the least we can do to help.”

    Fernando Neves – Ambasador

    A football player from Cape Verde and former international. During his career he changed several clubs as excluding Cape Verde he also played abroad, mostly in Portugal, France, Tunisia but also in the Czech Republic. After the end of his career, he refocused on charitable activities. One of his first projects was the foundation of a football school for local boys and girls at Cape Verde islands. Simultaneously, he took a part in one of the first projects of Shoes4life as he in cooperation with The Czech Association of Football Players was collecting football boots for young footballers so they could keep training and achieving their dream of becoming professional football players.

    Miroslav Markovič – Ambassador

    Professional Serbian football player. He started his career in a second-tier club NK Krka from where he went to Czech Baník Ostrava, which was his first foreign club. Later he tried his luck in Slovenia, Slovakia, Greece and Russia.

    Solomon Omale – Ambassador

    Professional Nigerian football player, at the moment playing in the second Czech league. Solomon gets involved actively in charitable activities aiming on his native Nigeria. He regularly, with the help of Shoes4life, brings necessary football equipment to young footballers so they also have a chance to become professional footballers.

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    Contact

    Foundation Fund Shoes4Life, ID: 05107873, with its registered office at Dlouhá 735/25, Staré Město, 110 00 Prague 1, registered in the endowment register kept by Municipal Court in Prague, section N, entry 1380, on behalf of which acts its Chairwoman JUDr. Markéta Vochoska Haindlová, LL.M.

    Delivery address:
    Pod Andělkou 166/4, 169 00 Prague 6 – Střešovice, Czech Republic

    Telephone: 
    +420 775 521 011

    Email:
    info@shoes4life.cz

    Delivery points

    Foundation Fond Shoes4Life – delivery address:
    Pod Andělkou 166/4, 169 00 Prague 6 – Střešovice

    11teamsports Store Prague
    Ječná 547/15, 120 00 Prague 2 – Nové Město