Here at our Global Corporate Headquarters we’re participating in the TOMS One Day Without Shoes event.  If you’re familiar with the brand TOMS, you’ll know that every time someone buys a pair of TOMS shoes the company donates a pair of shoes to an underprivileged child in need.

Why are shoes so important to a child? From the TOMS website:

• Children in developing countries are at risk of injury, infection, and soil-transmitted diseases that they can’t afford to treat.
• In certain regions of Ethiopia, wearing shoes and practicing good hygiene can prevent podoconiosis, a disease that causes swelling of the feet and legs due to prolonged exposure to irritant soil.
• Healthy children are much more likely to succeed in their education and achieve long-term success.

We dig what TOMS is doing for these kids.

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