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May 29

Laurence Yang has agreed to become GSS’ spokesmodel!

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lgy80115a194-smallerLaurence Yang, a 22 year old French and Korean model has agreed to be a spokesmodel for Green Soul Shoes.  She joins the ranks of Yvonne Wang, Miss Green NYC!

In her words, she “would love to be a part of Green Soul shoes!”  She loves everything eco-friendly and anything to improve the lives of underprivileged people.

Although she’s an experienced model, she is also currently a Surgical Technologist, who is majoring in Biological Sciences who wants to further her career by becoming a Cardiovascular Perfusionist.  We have high hopes for Laurence.  Stay tuned to see a lot more from Laurence!

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Aug 23

First shoe donation in Navotas City, Philippines

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So earlier this week, we donated the first batch of shoes to school children from the Philippines Christian Foundation in Navotas City, Philippines. The children were really excited and the school had them perform a thank you dance for us. Overwhelmingly, the people are excited to have us join them in their community and we are excited to work with them.

The location was set in a community of 500 to 1000  folks who lived in a local cemetery which was kind of macabre as there were open graves which were waiting to be reused.

There was also a section of housing built on stilts that extended into the water–the living conditions were still extremely rough and many sections of the bamboo floors were coming apart–making it important to look where you placed your foot.

By the time we left, we had over a hundred smiling faces and a community that had something new to celebrate. It has been a great week for our team over at GreenSoul Shoes and we are pretty excited about next steps!

More pictures here: http://su.pr/1DdOWq

May 08

Looking for Fullfilment Center in Brooklyn

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So our team has been visiting different fulfillment centers in the metro NYC area. Thus far we have looked at a number of centers (in fact, just one yesterday!) and have been rating each location on a number of metrics including:

  1. Do they resonate with our mission?
  2. How responsive is their customer service?
  3. Who are some of their other clients?
  4. How orderly are their facilities?

Collectively, these elements will help us determine if there is an opportunity to create a really special, long term partnership. Here is a picture we took of Iris yesterday at one of our site visits. =)

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