2010 is already shaping up to be a good year for us! Earlier this month we realized the successful completion of our first initiative. The goal was to generate funding to purchase new school books and supplies for the children of the workers in the factory that make Common Soles flip-flops in Vijayawada, India. Check out the details and photos from this event on our initiatives page.
Rao is back in India working on product and initiatives. We hope to have our first initiative fully funded in the next few weeks while he’s over there so we can wrap it up and get the kids new books! He’s busy working with the folks over there in assembling that whole process and I hope having some fun while doing so!
We are making great progress with raising the necessary funds for our Vijayawada school book initiative. 25% to goal thus far! Thank you to all who are supporting this initiative by purchasing a pair of the Saahi Flip-flops. The sooner we reach our goal, the faster the children get their new books.
We're looking at additional initiaitves with our friends in Vijayawada, India as well as other locations in India. Outside of India we are searching for and evaluating potential factories and footwear manufacturing communities in such places as Eastern Europe, Africa, South America, and even North America.
As stated all over our website we are selling the Saahi Flip-Flop to generate funding for school books. Books that will go to the children of the factory workers who made the flip-flops. In order to convey our progress in generating funds we've posted a meter on our Initiatives page which we will update periodically for our fund generating progress.
Once we hit our goal of collecting 100% of the funds to purchase the books, we will have our field staff in Vijayawada purchase the books and deliver them to the children. We'll get photos of that when it happens to share online!
We did it!