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TOMS shoe drop: Day-by-day countdown

Friday, December 14th, 2007

This November I took a trip with TOMS Shoes to help spread the love. For every pair of TOMS you purchase, they give a pair to a child in need. This year took us to South Africa where we placed 50,000 pairs of shoes on children’s feet.

Photo left: Blake Mycoskie (founder of TOMS), Esther and I greet children on the second day.

 

Africa Trip – Day #12- Nov 19, 2007

Friday, December 14th, 2007
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Blake and I
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Saying goodbye. Taylor, Gordon, M, Zack, Leigh-Ann, and Isaac

On the last day of our TOMS trip, we went to the Johannesburg Mayor’s office to meet some children from local orphanages. I guess politics is the same everywhere. The political assistant paid some lipservice to the “great” programs that the city of Joburg was doing as a local woman scoffed behind me.

I left early and headed over to one of the HIV/AIDS orphanages for children. The kids played outside with us, but we weren’t allowed in for various reasons.

Headed back to the Mayor’s office. Packed up. And headed to the airport. Half the crew, including myself, were staying in Africa. I was flying to Mozambique. The others were off to Cape Town. Esther, the photographer on the trip had little desire to head back to the States, so I invited her onto Mozambique…thus begins that journey…


to be continued...

 

 

Africa Trip – Day #11 – Nov 18, 2007

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Laughing at pictures early in the morning…almost time to leave

We have another late start in the day, but have to fly back to Johannesburg to Ethwathwa. Once we are there we take a look at an amazing community development project. Gordon has helped start Tangerine Marketing, which is surprisingly very similar to Mercado Global. It’s all about training local cooperative groups to create fabulous products and market them out. I got a bag, two belts, 3 cards, a picture frame, and an embroidered key chain. All tre chic.

Wearing my crocheted belt and bag from a community project
under the brand name: PROJEKT. It helps employ the skills
and inspiration of Cape Town’s disadvantaged craftswomen.

 

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