Bare feet slapped the polished floors in the halls of learning and blistered on the hot sidewalks of UTEP, until, by day's end,Instead of more common Louis Vuitton shoes operating systems the iPad adopts the same operating system as the iPhone they made their point - alleviate the real plight of barefooted children in third world countries.
Students abandoned the luxury of wearing shoes,Karen Millen are highly sought after and you are indeed lucky if you can have one sitting in your closet emulating the shoeless poverty of Ethiopia and Zambia in the TOMS event, "One Day Without Shoes," a worldwide effort on April 5 to bring awareness to the importance of providing shoes for children.
TOMS is a brand of shoes known for the motto - "With every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need. One for one." Every pair of shoes that an individual buys guarantees that a pair of shoes is made for a child in need somewhere in the world.
Students from TOMS Campus Club (TOMSCC) and ONE (OCC) gathered at Leech Grove on campus to help bring awareness to what TOMS does and to provide information about this day.
"One Day Without Shoes is basically to raise awareness about children and families that don't have basic clothing," said Vanessa Brown,Save on asics shoes and apparel at the world's largest running store. president of TOMS Campus Club. "Here at the university we take advantage; we can get up in the morning, come to school, take our classes and go home. And this is something that a lot of people don't have the means to do simply because they don't have protective clothing like shoes."
Throughout the day students were able to stop by the TOMSCC table to "surrender" their shoes at the table and walk barefoot to their next class.