Longtime partner, Brother’s Brother Foundation (BBF), Benbetesh, and Crocs, Inc. teamed up in October 2009 to donate over 11K pairs of Crocs™ shoes to children and families in El Salvador. With the help of BBF’s partnership with Food For the Poor, medicines, books and shoes are distributed to organizations such as the Order of Malta, and Fundacion Nuevos Horizontes Para Los Pobres ( New Horizons for the Poor). Altogether, in the past 4 years, Crocs, Inc. and BBF have provided over 60,000 pairs of Crocs™ shoes and basic necessities to schools, orphanages, and community centers throughout the capital, San Salvador.
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”).
