Archive for June, 2009

Boys and Girls Club (Saturday, June 27th, 2009)

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During the AVP sponsorship in 2009 Crocs CaresSM donated shoes to local kids at the local Boys and Girls Clubs after a volleyball clinic with the players.

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Honduras (Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009)

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Many pairs of shoes were donated to Shoes For Oscar, a non-profit that donates its time in Honduras.

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Vietnam (Monday, June 22nd, 2009)

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With World Vision, Singapore, Crocs donated thousands of pairs of shoes which helped to provide protection for the local school childrens feet on their way to school, to the fields, and safely back home.

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many children cannot

go to school without the basic necessity such as a pair of shoes.

in ethiopia, one million people

suffer from a disease caused by walking barefoot in volcanic soil [...] (globalshift.org)

millions of people

around the world cannot afford basic necessities such as a pair of shoes.

more than 300 million people

live on less than $1 a day (”globalissues.org”).

2.6 billion people

in the world lack basic sanitation (”globalissues.org”).

some 1.1 billion people

in developing countries have inadequate access to water (”globalissues.org”).

nearly a billion people

entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names (”globalissues.org”).

over 1.4 billion people

globally live on less than $1.25 per day (”Worldbank.org”).

35.9 million people

live below the poverty line in America, including 12.9 million children (”soundvision.com”).

1.7 billion people

live in poverty globally (”Wikipedia.org”).