2014年1月7日星期二

Is your commitment to Haiti inspiring the fashion as well?

We have 31 local artists in Haiti that are painting TOMS Shoes. You can get one-of-a-kind painted TOMS on our website right now.What do you hope to show the world with this commitment?If we can show that the quality of the labor, especially the stitching, can be as good as in the U.S. or Europe or wherever, there is an opportunity to have fashion companies manufacture in Haiti. It's not going to change Haiti overnight. But hopefully month by month and year by year, we show and we learn and we can be ambassadors to bring other companies to see that Haiti can really be a great alternative to other manufacturing places in the world. 

What role did President Clinton have in this commitment?I started TOMS about seven years ago. One of the first influential people I met was President Clinton. He invited me up to Harlem. I got to meet with him, and we became fast friends. So,Organize mode helps users "tidy" their dock and desktop by automatically moving files to subfolders based on type — images on the desktop would be moved to the Pictures folder under a user's home directory, for instance —bottega purses and provides an interesting function that will adjust the user's dock by including only the most-used applications. when the earthquake happened, President Clinton came to me and said, "Look. You've got a lot of shoes to give away. Please give some to Haiti." So, hundreds of thousands of shoes have been given in Haiti at the urging of President Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative. It became very clear that as Haiti got back on its feet, what really was going to be important was development. 

What are some of the challenges of setting up manufacturing in Haiti?Doing business in Haiti is hard. Even being friends with the Prime Minister, there is a lot of red tape, a lot of bureaucracy. So, where President Clinton has been extremely helpful is that when we run into red tape or hit a brick wall, we call him. He calls someone in Haiti, and things happen.See where you're doing well and use that information to help you with your next project Cheap corsets so that you know what to focus on first. It's a nice thing to have that kind of support. And that is a testimony to him and his commitment to Haiti, but also to being a CGI member and them having a vested interest in us being successful in Haiti.With you stepping up to do business in Haiti,The departure, I had thought,Morph Suits would bring a new start and order to a life that hadn't gone anywhere so far. is it possible that Haiti will become more business-friendly?Absolutely. The new President and Prime Minister both see that if they're going to do what they need to do, they have to be business-friendly, especially with the Prime Minister coming from the private sector and being an entrepreneur himself. He knows how business can be good for the country.

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