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Japan Relief

NIWOT, COLORADO – March 29, 2010 – Crocs, Inc. today announced that it has donated 50,000 pairs of shoes to Feed The Children and other organizations, which will work to distribute to those hardest hit by the recent earthquake and resulting tsunami. Crocs is also orchestrating ways for consumers to donate at Crocs retail stores and online at crocs.com, with proceeds benefiting the Japanese Red Cross Society. These donations are part of the corporate social responsibility program Crocs Cares, in which the company seeks to make a difference in the lives of people in need.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 at 1:03 pm and is filed under Asia, North America, Where.

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”).