Greeting from Lima! As my trip is approaching to its end, I had the opportunity to visit the market place in Lima called La Parada, where I had the opportunity to chat with local street-stand business owners selling ojotas. The great news is the shoes have a thinner, lighter, more flexible sole. They also have a variety of models which I am bringing back to test on the streets of New York [...] I am off to the beach now! -Iris.
Just for fun, since Iris was not able to attach pictures of the sandals she found in Lima, I decided to do a youtube video on ojotas.
This is a very funny commercial sponsored by El Commercio which is Peru’s biggest newspaper and their series in Invincible Brands, highlighting Nike, Coca Cola, etc.
Iris is traveling in Lima, Peru for about 10 days and we’re looking forward to hearing her reports when she gets back to the United States. Among other things, she will be visiting with a few villages while there.
Let us know if there are locations she should be visiting at iris@greensoulshoes.org.
I understand the phrase “global citizenship” much more deeply today than I did a few years ago. My teammates and I have traveled different paths in a diverse global environment and we have come to better understand our commonalities.
A large part of the reason why we are doing GreenSoul Shoes is to share with others our journey to better understand the phrase, “global citizenship.” I suppose one way of defining it is to take a macro view of the world and the planet that we live in. Take a look at this video and let us know what you think.
We are starting to get people sending us messages asking if they can help get the word out (and we love it!). Below are two from the same person, Celeste, one from her Cantonese meetup group and one as a badge on her personal blog site.
Thank you for your vote of confidence and we hope that others follow! Send us screenshots of your badge and we will be sure to post it here–the more creative the better! Here are some creative ones to get you thinking!
We got this video from Colt USA – Cambodian Organization for the Learning and Training- via our staffer Lyel’s friend Talia who works with them. Thanks for sharing. More here.
So we have added two new staffers at GreenSoul Shoes: Lyel Resner and Ada Sims. Lyel’s bio is listed below–we’ll get Ada’s up soon enough!
Lyel Resner is an international NGO community builder having coordinated a number of nonprofit volunteer initiatives in South America. Recent accomplishments include designing and implementing a water filtration system in the slums of Costa Rica and helping develop La Fundacion de Omtepe, an NGO that provides educational and community services in rural Nicaragua. Lyel is a former Emerging Markets analyst for Deutsche Bank. He holds degrees in Physics and Political Science from MIT.
Lyel Resner is an international NGO community builder having coordinated a number of nonprofit volunteer initiatives in South America. Recent accomplishments include designing and implementing a water filtration system in the slums of Costa Rica and helping develop La Fundacion de Omtepe, an NGO that provides educational and community services in rural Nicaragua. Lyel is a former Emerging Markets analyst for Deutsche Bank. He holds degrees in Physics and Political Science from MIT.
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