Fallen Rival SL Haiti edition

In this capitalist world of profit margins, sales growth and the constant need to see higher revenues, the incidence of charitable gestures is often low. However, skateboarding is a unique entity, even with the corporate pressures of publicly owned companies, our industry still thrives and is built on the rider owned independents that do things the way they should be done! Fallen footwear is no exception to this…

This spring Fallen sees the release of the Fallen Rival SL Haiti edition skate shoe. For every pair of these sold Fallen will donate $5 to help provide education, clothing and much needed medical care to the less fortunate people of Haiti.

Haiti has historically been poverty stricken due to a variety of reasons including historical factors such as war and war debt, occupations and dictatorships, isolation and racism that are still impacting Haiti today along with current economic and environmental factors such as international aid sanctions, internal political conflict, deforestation that leads to soil erosion and flooding, hurricanes, etc.

The average Haitian earns less than $1 a day, and there have been estimates that 1 percent of the country’s 8.1 million people controls nearly half its wealth (Mozingo). More than half of Haitians eight million people lack access to clean water or sanitation.

go to Fallen footwear for more info on the shoe and to three angels relief for more on Haiti.