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Friday, July 30, 2010

Shoe Revolt- A Social Enterprise

      Philanthropist Ateba Crocker has a great love for ALL humankind, especially for the well being of girls. Her goal is to use Shoe Revolt to improve the welfare of girls across the globe by eradicating the commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children through the sale of shoes. This industry is a multi- billion-dollar business and it will take strong financial backing to take a stand against it.

      Shoe Revolt’s profits, generated from the sale of shoes, will be donated to Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS), fund transitional housing, create scholarship opportunities and provide much needed mentoring and support for victims.

      Ateba believes the time is now to fight with shoe revenue to decriminalize victims and to take political action to create stronger laws that punish the perpetrators. Ateba is serious about this fight and is ready to lock arms with her Shoeista Sisters to declare that enough is enough! It’s time to end the sexual exploitation and commercial sale of children across the globe.

      Shoe Revolt is a for-profit company, managed as a social enterprise. We understand that the only way to fight a multi-billion dollar human trafficking and sexual exploitation industry is with dollars. Therefore, our goal is to stomp out human trafficking through a steady revenue stream. Our goal is simple – to use the profit from the purchase of new and donated shoes to financially support anti-trafficking initiatives to eradicate human trafficking for good.

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