Children receive their new shoes

Children receive their new shoe at 'Los Piletones' soup kitchen in Buenos Aires, Oct. 16, 2006 during the first 'Shoe Drop 2006'. Mycoskie flew down to Argentina last week with a team of 20 helpers to give away the first 10,000 pairs of Toms Shoes Alpargatas in soup kitchens, schools, and to homeless Guarani Indians in the Northern Argentine jungle. Since starting in March, Toms Shoes has already sold 10,000 alpargatas, the classic shoe of Argentine cowboys and ranchers, with a humanitarian hook: for every $38 pair sold, the company donates a pair to Argentina's poor.

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