Archive for the ‘Latin America’ Category

Hospital Donation with the First Lady of Belize (Wednesday, July 13th, 2011)

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June 12th and 13th, a donation of 700 pairs of Crocs shoes were donated to medical staff at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City and 400 pairs were given to children selected from 2 local schools. This was part of a groundbreaking project with the First Lady of Belize, the Ministry of Health, [...]

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Crocs Kicks around in Haiti (Friday, April 8th, 2011)

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Crocs partners with All Hands Volunteers for National Volunteer week at the Vini Jwe “come play” soccer tournament in Haiti.

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Panama with actor Dylan Bruno and UNICEF (Monday, June 28th, 2010)

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Actor Dylan Bruno joins Crocs and UNICEF in delivering shoes to children in Panama.

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Belize- Medical Team (Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010)

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The medical team, The Rocky Mountain Adventists Healthcare Foundation has the opportunity to help those in need in Belize.

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Colombia: Shakira and Pies Descalzos (Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010)

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Shakira, famous Colombian singer / songwriter and founder of Fundacion Pies Descalzos or “Barefoot Children Foundation” received 10,000 pairs of shoes for the children of Colombia.

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San Salvador, El Salvador (Saturday, October 10th, 2009)

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More than 10,000 families of San Salvador, El Salvador received Crocs™ shoes through our donation partners.

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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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Panama 2009 - UNICEF (Monday, February 23rd, 2009)

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PANAMA, 23rd of march 2009, more than 30,000 school-age boys and girls in the indigenous areas of the Ngobe Buglé, Emberá-Wounáan, Kuna Yala, the Darien province, and other emergency-declared areas, received a pair of Crocs™ footwear as a health promotion intervention aimed at reducing skin infections, fungus growth, and other infectious diseases linked to bare feet.

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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”).