If you will take 1 minute and 15 seconds out of your lives to click on the hyperlink below, you will find a brief video on a footwear company by the name of Toms. For every pair of shoes they sell they give one to a child in need. The attached link shows a glimpse of their Philippine program.
Rachel sent this to us from college. She has insisted from the very first month the boys were home that she wanted to give them Toms and give back also. We procrastinated. For two years. Until I clicked the link with Lucas, Eli and one of their friends standing behind me.
Take a look and you will see the images that were very much a part of Lucas and Eli's lives. Between explaining to their "America" friends that they didn't have shoes just like "those" kids but now they do and then showing how their feet are tough because they didn't wear shoes it was truly apparent how much gratitude these two (plus others who receive) feel towards not the company or the military or the country that gives but to the individual people measuring and placing those shoes on the feet of children that may never have had anything of their own.
For those that may say, "you should give without expecting gratitude"....you bet. But to be an eye witness to that gratitude is humbling and even more so at this time of year. Take a look. Toms is just one of many who do wonderful humanitarian things. But they go, they do, they affect a life forever. Take a look.
http://www.toms.com/blog/content/give-dignity?roi=echo4-16602634460-13914557-7017be0ec24a3e989cf96d1e55032776&bhn_mid=3737273&bhn_rid=1659292620&&utm_source=email&utm_medium=us_givingdignity&utm_campaign=november_30_2011
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