TOMS Shoes: All Children Should Have Shoes

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I am going to write about TOMS Shoes. I will tell you about TOMS, what they sell, furthermore when and how this company started. You will also learn how they are environmentally and globally responsible. I will explain how they are different from any other shoe company I have ever heard of, and why I would like to be a TOMS shoes employee. I will also discuss some negative views of this company. TOMS Shoes manufactures and sells shoes under the idea of “One for One” which is for every pair of shoes they sell they give a pair of shoes to a child in need. TOMS also sells eye wear under the “One for One” model, for every pair of eye wear sold TOMS will help restore eye site to another person via eye exams, surgery, or prescription eye glasses. Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS in 2006. He was originally going to call the company Shoes for Tomorrow, buy a pair of shoes today and we will give a pair of shoes to a child tomorrow. Because of the length of the name he later shortened it to TOMS. The idea to start a for-profit company that could provide shoes to children in need came to him when he was in Argentina. He met some volunteers who told him they were there to give shoes to children. He was intrigued and went with them. There he befriended some children and witnessed firsthand the hardships they faced due to lack of foot wear. He saw that shoes not only protect those little feet from blisters and getting cuts that get infected but they also prevent foot infections, and diseases that can penetrate the skin through bare feet such as ring worm and podoconiosis a very painful disease caused from walking barefoot on volcanic soil. Shoes also are part of a school uniform, therefore if a child doesn’t have shoes they cannot go to school. He... ... middle of paper ... ...rk Interview. (2013, February 6). YouTube. Retrieved March 3, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPvHlkN2_g8 He Gave 50,000 Kids Their First Pair of Shoes. (2007, September 10). - Heroes Among Us, The Amazing Race : People.com. Retrieved March 3, 2014, from http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20060246,00.html TOMS Shoes & Eyewear Official Store | TOMS.ca. (n.d.). TOMS Shoes & Eyewear Official Store | TOMS.ca. Retrieved March 2, 2014, from http://www.toms.ca/?cid=ps_cabrand&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=brand TOMS Shoes and the Neoliberal Gospel. (n.d.). Utne. Retrieved March 3, 2014, from http://www.utne.com/economy/neoliberal-gospel-zm0z14mazros.aspx TOMS founder on one-for-one method: I was bad at math. (n.d.). CBSNews. Retrieved March 3, 2014, from http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/toms-founder-on-one-for-one-method-i-was-bad-at-math/

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