What am I doing to make a difference in the world? After reading of other people’s past experiences I understand that it’s hard for an individual to make a long lasting impact on the world. However, as young individuals we can take small initiatives that will make the world a better place. Many of these methods are so accessible, such as following a trend, such as the one Sophia Pashchenko mentioned.

She talks in her article about brands that have a positive intentions of reducing poverty, some examples are the SoleRebels Company and Toms Shoe Company.  

After reading Sophia’s article and several articles, I realized about the debate on whether SoleRebels had more influence in reducing poverty than the Tom Shoes. This is how I became clear about the influence both shoe brands have. However, I don’t agree that SoleRebel is being more efficient than the Tom’s Shoes company.

SoleRebel has a better philanthropy by giving not only people jobs, but the opportunity of education, yet the consumers are not aware of it. Toms Shoes has more advantage because of it’s marketing and are more successful because celebrities expose it more. What consumers are not aware about is that they would make a better influence in reducing poverty by using SoleRebels shoes and in order to be effective SoleRebel needs to be exposed more to the business world.

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