{"id":1192,"date":"2011-05-20T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/bioped-dignity-day-at-the-gateway-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:26:11","slug":"bioped-dignity-day-at-the-gateway-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/2011\/05\/20\/bioped-dignity-day-at-the-gateway-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"BioPed Dignity Day at The Gateway of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/029edit.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11871\" title=\"029edit\" src=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/029edit-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/012edit.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11873\" title=\"012edit\" src=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/012edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioped.com\/index.asp\">BioPed<\/a> closed its clinic doors, sharing clinicians and staff to chosen Salvation Army shelters nationwide to distribute footwear and conduct routine foot assessments and foot-related education for those individuals who do not have access to adequate foot care or footwear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cWe often take footwear for granted,\u201d said Robin Schleien, President and CEO of BioPed Franchising Inc. \u201cBut, in fact, many Canadians \u2013 children and adults \u2013 either go without decent shoes or have none at all. We created the goodytwoshoes foundation to help fulfill this basic need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Established in March of 2010, goodytwoshoes aims to give the gift of comfort, activity and better foot health to thousands of Canadians. Since then, thousands of gently-loved shoes have been donated by patients of the more than 45 BioPed full-service clinics across Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Colombia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, with hopes of expanding the program to a greater number of less fortunate people, BioPed has partnered with The Salvation Army to contribute to their National Dignity Project.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to BioPed for your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, BioPed closed its clinic doors, sharing clinicians and staff to chosen Salvation Army shelters nationwide to distribute footwear and conduct routine foot assessments and foot-related education for those individuals who do not have access to adequate foot care or footwear. \u00a0\u201cWe often take footwear for granted,\u201d said Robin Schleien, President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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