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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Claudia’s Story
Over the course of the Fall, we’ve taken you on a tour of Peru with Giving Partner Buckner International. We’ve shared stories and images from the field about Buckner’s programming and intimate thoughts from the TOMS Giving Trip team throughout their journey. Now, we hear first-hand from Claudia Leon, the executive director of Buckner, on why she feels her work is so important and how TOMS plays an integral role in Buckner’s humanitarian aid programs.
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Reflections on theatre & education of giving: TOMS employee journal by Christian
Though not the primary way we give TOMS Shoes, giving trips are one of the TOMS family’s favorite perks of our work here. After certain checkpoints of working for the company and to extend the movement, we get a pretty amazing experiential gift: that of joining a TOMS Giving Partner to distribute shoes to children on the Giving side of One for One.
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Profiles in One for One: Maricor’s Mural
While visiting Buckner in Peru, the Giving Trip team learned how art plays a huge role in a child’s development. “Art, in general, helps kids to be aware of what things are around them. They can express and learn in a healthy way,” Buckner’s Giuli shared. Aside from using art forms as a tool to teach healthy habits like hand-washing and wearing shoes as Giuli does in her puppet shows, art also offers children a creative outlet of expression and a sense of self-esteem and ownership. Giving Trip participant — Maricor, a textile artist from Australia — wanted to hone in on her artistic talents to work with and leave behind something special for the children of Buckner. Read on to see how she helped transform a plain white wall into a masterpiece.
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Giving TOMS Shoes in Peru with Buckner International: a [VIDEO]
“What we want from this community is not to change them; it’s to make them realize how important they are.”
Watch as some of the key players from TOMS Giving Partner Buckner International, Peru + Chief Shoe Giver Blake Mycoskie explain how you’re helping affect change for children and their families there…
