Special-edition, Congolese-inspired TOMS Shoes
We're teaming up with Giving Partner Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI), an advocacy and grant-making organization founded by Ben Affleck, on two Congolese-inspired designs with an additional give. Read More >>
TOMS x charity: water - An Eyewer collaboration
TOMS and charity: water, an organization founded in 2006 (like TOMS!) that’s dedicated to to helping bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, join forces for the first-ever TOMS Eyewear collab! Read More >>
Giving TOMS Shoes in the DRC
Founded by Ben Affleck in 2010, ECI is an advocacy and grant-making organization that works with and for the people of DRC, the third most populous country in Africa, and one that struggled under a cycle of violence for nearly 20 years – particularly in the east. Read More >>
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12 Days of Giving: Day 6
We’re firm believers in the companionship of a durable journal within this TOMS family of ours. You may have guessed it from the still-vivid details we share when reflecting on past Giving trips or anecdotes from the archives of TOMS HQ. You’ll find journals sprinkled all about these parts, and that’s why we’re especially glad we unwrapped an awesome one to offer you today, the halfway point of our 12 Days of Giving.
Purchase the gift unwrapped today — a leather-bound journal, heat-stamped with our seasonal triangular Indo pattern! http://toms.sh/QOgMzF (US, Aus); http://toms.sh/Vp3Ey1 (UK); http://toms.sh/SEMU7o (Can)
Notes from the field
Earlier this year philanthropist and model Kyleigh Kuhn joined us on a Giving trip. Here’s an entry from her own journal when we visited the Visualiza Eye Care Center in Guatemala:
“The waiting room at the eye clinic is one of those unique places that contain both hope & fear — excitement & hesitation…I was astonished to hear one man explain that he had a cataract removed 20 years ago, but they did not replace a new lens. Such a simple procedure, needlessly prolonged.”
