A 25-year-old woman bought 204 pairs of shoes from a Kansas Payless store to donate to flood victims in Nebraska.
The order which cost just $100 after discounts included 162 pairs of baby shoes, 40 pairs of womens shoes, and two pairs of mens shoes.
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Tritt told INSIDER that she normally donates items anonymously or under a fake name, but she had to use her real name when she realized she had no way of transporting the items from Kansas to Nebraska.
"I didn't want to, but I'm in the middle of a move from Kansas to Oklahoma," she said. "I didn't have a way to personally take them to Nebraska. So I posted on 'Hays buy sell trade' [Facebook group] asking for help ... then it blew up."
Trittt gave half of her shoes to a woman on the "Hays buy sell trade group" who offered to help with transport, and the rest to a drive at her alma mater, Fort Hays State University, organized by the Sigma Alpha agricultural sorority, according to CNN .
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The shoes donated to the school were delivered to Nebraska on Monday along with water and other supplies.
"I really feel I have been directed and guided to help people," Tritt told The Hutch Post about her donation. "I think everything is a part of God's plan. If you can do something for someone else, you need to find a way even if it is a pair of shoes."
Three people died in the floods, and two others remain missing and are presumed dead, according to the Lincoln Star Journal .
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