Tuesday 4 February 2014

Is it all for charity??

Toms give Shoes in over 60 of the world’s poorest countries including Haiti, India, Albania, Angola and Kenya. Toms give “sight” in 12 countries Bangladesh, Egypt and Paraguay. If you go onto the Toms web site you will see for yourself that they do in fact say they help over 60 countries by giving them shoes and vision but you will also see on their website that they have clothes, ‘tribal’ collections and even phone covers but nowhere does it say where the profit from these products goes. I mean don’t get me wrong I think that the whole one for one movement is really good and it is an idea that should be supported but some aspects of the company seem a little shady, like if we go to one of the places on their list are we going to see kids walking around with I-phone 4 covers or clothes with the toms logo printed on them? It’s not all bad though,  the money taken from those products might go into marketing or shipping but the fact that they don’t state what it actually goes to makes me a little specious as they have ONE FOR ONE printed all over their website. So I ask you this: should we be a little bit suspicious of Toms or should we just believe what we are told?

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