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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A Role Model for Change

More than 7,000 miles separate suburban Virginia from rural Uganda. But as the founder of TOMS Giving Partner Arlington Academy of Hope, John Wanda bridges that distance every day.
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Reaching remote corners of Uganda

Search as you may, but you won’t spot Matuwa on a Google map. But turn off the main dusty road in Manafwa District in Eastern Uganda and follow the smaller dirt path that winds up a large mountain, and soon you’ll find it. The community is quaint, with well-kept school grounds and a large playing field for the hundreds of students it educates.
