Kim Kardashian West To Donate 1000 Pairs Of Shoes To Charity

American television and social media personality, Kim Kardashian West says she will give away 1,000 pairs of shoes to charity, after watching a television show of a teen girl attempting to find 1000 pairs of shoes.

The girl referred to as Amelia Flores is 17-years of age from Kansas City.

The philanthropic teen had set up several shoe collection sites around her home city of Andover, USA, in the hope of gathering up 1,000 pairs of shoes.

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She’s planning on contributing the donations to non-profit organisation Soles4Souls who helped her during Hurricane Katrina.

Kardashian then made a split-second choice with her husband, Kanye West, who won the Shoe of the Year award for his Yeezy Boost sneakers on Dec. 2, to donate the entire portion of shoes the girl was looking for.

Touched by the good cause, the keeping up with the Kardashian star tweeted: “I heard the cutest story of a girl who is trying to find 1,000 pairs of shoes to donate to this charity [Soles4Souls]! They helped her during Hurricane Katrina.”

She added: “I think I know the designer of Shoe of the Year Award!,” referring to West, who was recently honoured at an awards ceremony for his Yeezy shoe range.

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“Kanye and I would love to donate those 1000 shoes to [Soles4Souls],” Kardashian continued. “You reached your goal, so proud of you!!!”

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Flores herself later tweeted of the news: “Yay I did something!!”

Charity Soles4Souls are so elated they commented that it’s like Christmas has come early and are attempting to arrange a meeting for Kim and Amelia.

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