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Brown Shoe donates 35,000 pairs of shoes to Tsunami relief effort

01/02/2005

America’s Brown Shoe Company, Inc. has donated approximately 35,000 pairs of children's and women's shoes to the tsunami relief effort, with an estimated retail value of $500,000.

 

The shoes, supplied by Brown Shoe's Buster Brown & Co. children's division and its private label division, will be sent to families in South Asia and Eastern Africa through K.I.D.S. and Gifts In Kind International's Asian Relief Effort. K.I.D.S. is a national charitable organisation that facilitates the donation of new products, including children's clothes, shoes, books and toys, to ill or poverty-stricken children in the US and abroad. K.I.D.S. is collaborating with World Vision, a Christian relief and development organisation dedicated to tackling the causes of poverty that affect children and their communities worldwide. Gifts In Kind is a product philanthropy charity, helping companies donate products to charities and schools around the world.

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