Founded in 2006 by American traveller Blake Mycoskie after befriending children in Argentina. - http://omahanightlife.com/articles/all_about_toms
There is no guy named Tom behind the project, the name is an abbreviation for 'Shoes for a Better Tomorrow'.
Q&A with Blake talking about the Toms experience, and plans for the future - http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/04/qa-with-toms-shoes-founder-blake-mycoskie
Thousands of pictures of people wearing Toms - http://www.toms.com/how-we-wear-them/
Toms vegan shoes - http://www.mommymatter.com/tag/toms-shoes/
Good marketing - bad aid? Guys opinion of Toms to be 'not brill' and made a counter-campaign against their A day without shoes campaign. Also lists a few other charities that do a similar thing as Toms, such as Bobs. - http://goodintents.org/in-kind-donations/toms-shoes
'Give a man a fish, you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you have fed him for a lifetime'. Same sort of thing with Toms? Is it really solving long term - from what I read on their site yes as they don't just give once and go, but this site has some interesting points to raise about how they could maybe do 'more'. - http://marshallbirkey.com/economic-development/aidwars-toms-shoes-vs-dignity/
Comments saying how the streets are dirty and have sensitive feet so they are not going to take part with the One Day without Shoes campaign - isn't that the whole point of it? So that you get to understand how they have no choice in wearing no shoes on disgusting streets etc? Pfft. - http://www.sodahead.com/living/toms-one-day-without-shoes-campaign-will-you-take-off-your-footwear-today/question-1651769/
Video of him talking about the book and eye wear and the history of TOMS - http://www.livestream.com/goodreads/video?clipId=pla_28f517b1-f951-4319-8b22-99723df24832&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb
