Socks 4 Souls Canada is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization committed to providing homeless people with warmth, comfort, dignity, mobility and health through new socks. Good foot health has a tremendous impact on one's ability to seek food, shelter, medical care and other social services.
Our vision is that all Canadian homeless communities have everyday access to clean, new socks and the comfort and opportunities that come with them.
On a particularly cold evening in February 2015, some friends sat around a dinner table exploring ways they might help the homeless people of Toronto. Learning that over 20% of medical problems experienced by Toronto’s homeless population relate to foot health, they united behind a simple idea: Clean Socks.
The group managed to distribute over 35,000 pairs of socks in their first sock drive, and thus Socks 4 Souls Canada was born.