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Last Updated 2012-06-28 - 10:44:12 (CET)
The kicker is the proceeds from each pair of shoes sold go to support an orphan in Kenya for one month.
Chantal Garceau commands my attention from the moment I walk into her home in Woodinville. Her bold personality, her confident demeanor, the way she moves from one room to another, almost gliding, I am immediately transfixed.
“Would you like a cup of tea?” I decline, and she makes one for herself. On the island in her kitchen sits a multilayered cake stand with tiny 2012 Christian Louboutin shoes outlet handmade baby shoes. Her kitchen table is an organized mess of leather soles, fabric, a clipboard tracking inventory and even more shoes.
Garceau runs Chantal’s Little Shoes from her home with the help of a few volunteers. The shoes are designed for babies from zero to 24 months, they come in 16 styles and each pair costs $35, but that’s only half the story.
Garceau donates almost all of her profits to the Imani Project, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Ore. The organization provides resources and assistance to villagers in Kenya to better educate community members about HIV and AIDS prevention. The Imani Project also provides opportunities for sponsorship. For a $30 donation, an orphan is able to school and gets essential medication for a month.
“Every time I sell a pair of shoes, it’s a month of sponsorship,” said Garceau. “If I sell 12 Christian Louboutin No Prive Satin Slingback Pump On Sale shoes, that’s a year.”
Since the project’s inception in January of 2011, Chantal’s Little Shoes has donated over $2,300 to the Imani Project.
How the project started
Garceau has been making baby shoes on and off for years as a hobby, giving them to friends and family.
“People kept telling me to start my own business … I would be making a dollar an hour,” she said.
Last Christmas, after learning about the Imani Project from her sister-in-law who serves on the non-profit’s board of directors, Garceau decided to sponsor a child in Kenya, 15-year-old Linet.
“Linet is a very bright girl,” said Garceau. “She’s very determined to be educated.”
After deciding to sponsor an orphan herself, it didn’t take long for the idea of Chantal’s Little Shoes to form.
“My sister-in-law and I were sitting on the couch and doing the sponsorship stuff on the computer and I thought, this is what I’m going to do,” said Garceau. “I’m going to make shoes; I’m going to give the money away.”
The first five months of 2011 were devoted to designing the shoes and laying the foundation for the project. Garceau launched her line on Etsy in May of 2011, and over a year later, Chantal’s Little Shoes helps to sponsor five children in Kenya.
“Once you start sponsoring children, it’s a lifetime responsibility,” said Garceau. “It came just at the right time for Christian Louboutin Open-Toe Platform Pump Black SalResource from http://www.onlinechristianlouboutinshoes.com.
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Chantal Garceau commands my attention from the moment I walk into her home in Woodinville. Her bold personality, her confident demeanor, the way she moves from one room to another, almost gliding, I am immediately transfixed.
“Would you like a cup of tea?” I decline, and she makes one for herself. On the island in her kitchen sits a multilayered cake stand with tiny 2012 Christian Louboutin shoes outlet handmade baby shoes. Her kitchen table is an organized mess of leather soles, fabric, a clipboard tracking inventory and even more shoes.
Garceau runs Chantal’s Little Shoes from her home with the help of a few volunteers. The shoes are designed for babies from zero to 24 months, they come in 16 styles and each pair costs $35, but that’s only half the story.
Garceau donates almost all of her profits to the Imani Project, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Ore. The organization provides resources and assistance to villagers in Kenya to better educate community members about HIV and AIDS prevention. The Imani Project also provides opportunities for sponsorship. For a $30 donation, an orphan is able to school and gets essential medication for a month.
“Every time I sell a pair of shoes, it’s a month of sponsorship,” said Garceau. “If I sell 12 Christian Louboutin No Prive Satin Slingback Pump On Sale shoes, that’s a year.”
Since the project’s inception in January of 2011, Chantal’s Little Shoes has donated over $2,300 to the Imani Project.
How the project started
Garceau has been making baby shoes on and off for years as a hobby, giving them to friends and family.
“People kept telling me to start my own business … I would be making a dollar an hour,” she said.
Last Christmas, after learning about the Imani Project from her sister-in-law who serves on the non-profit’s board of directors, Garceau decided to sponsor a child in Kenya, 15-year-old Linet.
“Linet is a very bright girl,” said Garceau. “She’s very determined to be educated.”
After deciding to sponsor an orphan herself, it didn’t take long for the idea of Chantal’s Little Shoes to form.
“My sister-in-law and I were sitting on the couch and doing the sponsorship stuff on the computer and I thought, this is what I’m going to do,” said Garceau. “I’m going to make shoes; I’m going to give the money away.”
The first five months of 2011 were devoted to designing the shoes and laying the foundation for the project. Garceau launched her line on Etsy in May of 2011, and over a year later, Chantal’s Little Shoes helps to sponsor five children in Kenya.
“Once you start sponsoring children, it’s a lifetime responsibility,” said Garceau. “It came just at the right time for Christian Louboutin Open-Toe Platform Pump Black SalResource from http://www.onlinechristianlouboutinshoes.com.
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