South Africa, June 26 -- This forms part of a campaign that is a collective effort from Happy Friday Creative (Creative team: Jonathan Wolberg, Fu'aad Kasu, and Shannon Miller), and Retroviral, Run Jump Fly.

A school shoe is a symbol and signal of dignity. During Youth Month, Liberty Group South Africa has provided 10s of 1,000s school shoes to these learners - for many, their first pair of school shoes.

Of roughly 17 million schoolchildren in the country, about 10.1 million walk to their schools daily. An estimated seven million children in South Africa have never owned a pair of school shoes.

While not all of them walk to school entirely barefoot, millions of impoverished learners - especially in rural areas - make this long commute ...