The Diasan child walks to school daily with a good pair of shoes from SM. The children show off their shoes from SM’s Share Shoes Program. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
The Diasan child walks to school daily with a good pair of shoes from SM. The children show off their shoes from SM’s Share Shoes Program. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

IN Diasan, a remote farming community in Echague, Isabela, elementary students would walk more than an hour in bare feet or in slippers over rough terrain each day just to go to school.

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