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Joey Monaco
Click here for my video; here is the link if the hyperlink does not work: try copy and pasting this into your browser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s4nzHyRSSo
Joey Monaco
I really like your infographic because this is an example of how companies use marketing strategies to try and include ways in which First World consumers can try and “help” out Third World nations. I think it was a good point to emphasize that shoes do not help countries gain clean water or food and what problems could arise when possibly TOMS could go out of business. Also, these brand of shoes are not that cheap and so this could be another part of the marketing in order to gain customers. Maybe TOMS could donate money to countries instead of donating a pair of shoes or donate ways in which to improve their ways in making shoes so that they could have shoe making businesses for their own country.
This infogprahic really illsutrates the issue we are facing with third world countries and how we can help them. Many people assume that by donating clothes or shoes will help these countries and in some way it will, but the problems in third world countries can’t be fixed by donating clothes or shoes which we often dismiss. TOMS is a great way to be more aware and help a society but as you said in your info graph “feeling good about buying a pair of shoes is not really it”.
I really like this topic you tackled. I think it is important to give TOMS some credit for donating a pair of shoes to a child in a third world country, I’m sure there are a lot of health benefits to not being barefoot all day. But I like your approach to the temporary fix, there are more important issues concerning global health and aide other than a pair of shoes. It’ll also be interesting to see how these TOMS shoes are manufactured. Did you find some research on that?