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I highly recommend you check out TOMS shoes. They were featured last night on Donny Deutsche and I have to say the story is amazing and the product looks better. The shoes are based on the Argentinaian alpargatas, and for every pair sold, TOMS donates a pair to a child in a third world country.

The company was started by Blake Mycoskie who was traveling in Argentina and saw all of these children with no shoes walking everywhere. Their feet were torn up and he decided he needed to make a difference. He started the business by taking 200 samples of shoes back with him to the US and started going door to door. He made it in a few botique shops in LA, but the real break came when he made the weekend edition of the LA Times. By the end of the weekend he had $88,000 in orders.

So far they have donated over 10,000 shoes and they plan to drop off another 50,000 this year to kids in Africa. Check them out and get yourself a pair for $38 and at the same time help a child be a little more comfortable.