I never imagined I’d say this, but I’m pretty excited about intestinal parasites.
They’re just one of the many things that can plague a child without shoes, but they’re a big one. Some pretty amazing stats, from the World Health Organization and some of our field partners:

400 million children are infected or at risk of [...]

One of our awesome young fans, Anna, recently sent us this drawing of her newest pair of TOMS shoes!  Not only is she generous, but she’s an artist as well Thank you guys for continuing to inspire us every day. Keep sending us your pics, letters, and drawings!!

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Three of our staff – Andrew, Alejo, and I – just got back from a week in Ethiopia, finding exciting new ways to increase our giving there. In addition to participating in Timkat, one of Ethiopia’s biggest holidays (where Andrew and Alejo wore matching Ethiopian shirts and I got blessed/sprayed in the face by a [...]

Argentina is where it all began. You’ve seen the YouTube videos, the documentary, and countless photos. We LOVE Argentina.
The majority of our volunteer Shoe Drops have taken place there and I was fortunate to have been a part of one in March, 2008 with an amazing group of people. I called them our Guinea Pigs [...]

Want to see more drawings from HQ? Check them out here.

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The artistic talents of some of the TOMS staff at HQ debuted last week featuring what gifts they were giving this Holiday season and why. And back by popular demand, here are some more comical and clever creations from HQ…

Its been over a month since 10 of us HQ employees were on the other side of the world, on our hands and knees giving shoes to children. Six weeks ago we woke up every morning with a feeling of uneasy excitement: unsure of what the day ahead would hold, unsure of how we would [...]

We have a pretty creative space to work in. Its a warehouse/sound stage turned official business HQ: Creative. We have walls made out of boxes of shoes: Creative. And we each have special “shoe names” (Sole Surfer, Sole Mate, Shoegooder): Creative… right? We’ve even been known to have entire all-staff meetings to brainstorm.
In order to [...]

It’s like we just can’t get enough of each other… when we say we’re a family, we mean it. That means working hard Monday through Friday together and taking lunch breaks just to hang out more. And spending time after work together, and sometimes weekends too. This year we held our first annual TOMS Family [...]