Lindsay Toler and her new friends proudly display their Roma boots

We first shared Samuel Bistrian’s story last December. He’s the Lakewood man who founded Roma boot company and promised to give away a pair for every order received. Wilshire Baptist Church’s Mary Browder was singing his praises, because he yearned to return to Romania, where he grew up, to help the children living in desperate poverty there.

Last weekend, Samuel enlisted the aid of my daughter, Lindsay Toler, who works in nearby Moldova as a Peace Corps volunteer, to distribute the much-needed footwear to the village children. You can read Lindsay’s account, see her photos and view her video of the day here.