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!

All costs to administer this initiaitve are also paid for by Common Soles, but the costs do not come from the 4% we collect per pair sold. We cover those costs outside of this percentage. Our goal is to build an organization that operates more efficiently and effectively than other third party NGO's or non-profits that we could otherwise have partnered with to acheive this goal of supplying new school books.

-Dave