Soles4Souls
Birdies x Soles4Souls
To date, Birdies has donated 36,589 pairs of shoes to Soles4Souls, giving women throughout the Caribbean, Central America, and Africa the opportunity to start their own businesses. On average, one pair of Birdies can generate nearly two weeks of income for a person living on less than $2 a day in countries like Haiti, Honduras, Malawi, and Tanzania. The shoes we’ve donated so far have provided 52 families with a year’s worth of food, shelter, and education.
In Her Shoes
Two of the most common goals that Soles4Souls’ participating female entrepreneurs share are ensuring that their children can attend school full-time and having the ability to buy their own land. Their independent shoe businesses enable them to achieve these goals, and in many cases, also accumulate a month-plus of emergency savings.
These female entrepreneurs describe the gravity of this impact as follows: a sense of pride for having successful businesses; more confidence in themselves; more respect and input in household decision-making; increased leadership roles in their community, like mentoring other women to start businesses; improved health and education for their families; greater optimism about their families’ futures.
About Soles4Souls
Soles4Souls disrupts the cycle of poverty by creating sustainable jobs and providing relief through the distribution of shoes and clothing around the world. The organization repurposes its partner’s products to supply its micro-enterprise, disaster relief, and direct assistance programs—keeping unused or unwanted shoes and clothing from going to waste by turning them into economic opportunities. Since 2006, they have distributed more than 51 million pairs of shoes in 129 countries and generated over $250 million in economic impact.
Birdies x Soles4Souls
To date, Birdies has donated 36,589 pairs of shoes to Soles4Souls, giving women throughout the Caribbean, Central America, and Africa the opportunity to start their own businesses. On average, one pair of Birdies can generate nearly two weeks of income for a person living on less than $2 a day in countries like Haiti, Honduras, Malawi, and Tanzania. The shoes we’ve donated so far have provided 52 families with a year’s worth of food, shelter, and education.
In Her Shoes
Two of the most common goals that Soles4Souls’ participating female entrepreneurs share are ensuring that their children can attend school full-time and having the ability to buy their own land. Their independent shoe businesses enable them to achieve these goals, and in many cases, also accumulate a month-plus of emergency savings.
These female entrepreneurs describe the gravity of this impact as follows: a sense of pride for having successful businesses; more confidence in themselves; more respect and input in household decision-making; increased leadership roles in their community, like mentoring other women to start businesses; improved health and education for their families; greater optimism about their families’ futures.
About Soles4Souls
Soles4Souls disrupts the cycle of poverty by creating sustainable jobs and providing relief through the distribution of shoes and clothing around the world. The organization repurposes its partner’s products to supply its micro-enterprise, disaster relief, and direct assistance programs—keeping unused or unwanted shoes and clothing from going to waste by turning them into economic opportunities. Since 2006, they have distributed more than 51 million pairs of shoes in 129 countries and generated over $250 million in economic impact.
