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Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and recently incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community. Over the past 25 years, Homeboy Industries has created an effective national and international model of gang intervention. By creating a therapeutic community that provides the critical steps needed to change individual lives, Homeboy has made a singular impact on the Los Angeles community, not only by providing a means for the highest risk men and women to support their families in the short term, but also by creating a path to reentry for those considered “least likely to succeed.” More than 300 men and women each year are provided job training positions in our headquarters and six social enterprises. While they learn on-the-job skills in what is often their first “real” employment, these clients are also encouraged to use their workday to work on themselves; mental health therapy, tattoo removal, substance abuse counseling, parenting and financial literacy classes, GED tutoring, solar panel installation training, case management and legal services are all offered free of charge in our headquarters. In addition, 10,000-12,000 community clients who are not employed in-house seek services like employment counseling and tattoo removal each year.
It began with a flash of inspiration. It was 1825 in the Somerset village of Street and James Clark was busy working at the tannery owned by his brother, Cyrus. Among the sheepskin rugs, the off-cuts and cast-offs were piling up when James had a brainwave: “Slippers!”. And the rest, as they say, is history. A few stitches and a few years later, the sheepskin slipper was born. It was the very first Clarks shoe and the opening chapter in a remarkable story that continues to unfold to this day. In the decades that have passed since the young Mr. Clark’s eureka moment our shoes have seen social, political and economic revolution. They’ve seen fashions in footwear come and go, and come again – everything from court shoes and winklepickers to wedge heels, sandals and sneakers. They’ve tapped to the beat of crooners, rockers, Britpoppers and hip hoppers. They’ve walked, marched, strode and sashayed through an ever-changing world. New technology, state-of the-art facilities and our love of shoes means we’re not only the number one shoe brand in the UK. With continuing growth in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, India and China, we’re also the world’s largest casual and smart shoe company and the fourth largest footwear company on the planet. We’ve come a long way since Cyrus and James Clark and the ‘Brown Petersburg’. But their vision and passion live on in our shoes. You could say we’re following in their footsteps.
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