The Man With One Red Shoe

” The company calls itself the first to “make premium leather shoes and goods exclusively in Africa. Oliberté’s shoes are made in Ethiopia with leather “sourced from local free-range cows, sheep and goats,” according to an article by Good. Oliberté makes shoes in Africa using local materials and sells them in Western countries. SoleRebels is a shoe company founded by Bethlehem Tilahun, an Ethiopian. Tilahun said something about TOMS that sums it up: “If you give a kid shoes, they wear out or they grow out of them, and then what do they have. The problem of poverty is deeper than just children lacking shoes. If you give the kid’s parents a job, the whole family will always have shoes. The natural rubber in the soles of the shoes is processed in Liberia. Oliberté’s website states that the company “partners with factories, suppliers, farmers and workers to produce premium footwear in Africa” and creates “fair jobs, with the goal of contributing to the development of a thriving middle class.

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