Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category

Crocs Cares & The Margaret Okari Children’s Foundation (Wednesday, February 27th, 2013)

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For a few months, Crocs Cares worked with board members of the Margaret Okari Children’s Foundation to set up a donation of shoes for all of the students at the Margaret Okari School in Kisii, Kenya. The children had no idea the shoes were on their way and the pictures below prove it! Thank you [...]

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Feed The Children and Crocs in Kenya (Monday, January 31st, 2011)

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395 people received a new pair of Crocs shoes in Kenya.

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UNICEF and CROCS in Namibia (Tuesday, September 21st, 2010)

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An in-kind donation of over 72,000 pairs of Crocs(tm) shoes to UNICEF have been delivered to orphans, vulnerable children and their caregivers in Namibia.

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Uganda: Pen Pal school in Africa (Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010)

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Local Colorado Elementary school collects Crocs™ shoes to donate to pen pals in Uganda.

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Liberia: Africa (Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010)

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Hundreds of shoes were sent to the Baptist World Aid organization in Liberia.

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Hamasi, Kenya (Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010)

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From Colorado to Hamisi, Kenya, the kids at Crossroads Springs are all now wearing Crocs™ shoes.

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Gambia: Africa (Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010)

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Boys and girls in the West African country of Gambia will now have sturdy shoes to wear during the wet and cold season.

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Burundi - World Emergency Relief (Monday, June 21st, 2010)

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With donation partner, World Emergency Relief, 10,000 pairs of shoes were donated to the children in villages affected by many years of civil war, economic instability, starvation and disease.

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Malawi: Africa (Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010)

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Crocs, Inc. salutes Madonna’s efforts and has joined her in providing more than 20K pairs of shoes to the orphans and families who are part of her organization, Raising Malawi.

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Kenya and Zimbabwe - Global Aid Network (Sunday, November 15th, 2009)

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With Global Aid Network, Crocs helped deliver shoes to thousands of orphans, refugees and families throughout villages in Kenya and Zimbabwe.

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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”).