First pair of shoes for Alex

Small ticks from pigs, called jiggers, are eating up Alex Chipilipili’s feet. The 10-year-old has never owned a pair of shoes. He anxiously waits with 170 other children, all of them hoping to receive a pair of TOMS Shoes from World Vision.

October 2010

Story by Collins Kaumba. Edited by Rachael Boyer, World Vision U.S.

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First pair of shoes for Alex.

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