Footwear-maker TOMS has given millions of shoeless kids their soles back


  • People
  • Saturday, 10 Jan 2015

Shoes may be a fashion statement to some but for these less fortunate children from Rwanda, they mean access to education and help eliminate foot-borne diseases.

TOMS 'One For One' programme – you buy a shoe, they put a free shoe on a kid without any –is both a fashion statement and a life-saving movement for millions around the world.

Blake Mycoskie had no idea that he would go on to change the lives of needy children around the world. All he wanted to do was help the children he befriended in an Argentinian village during a holiday.

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