{"id":17038,"date":"2026-03-10T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/how-one-man-is-giving-poverty-the-boot\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:02:53","slug":"how-one-man-is-giving-poverty-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/how-one-man-is-giving-poverty-the-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Man Is Giving Poverty the Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Bistrian is merging fashion and philanthropy with his socially conscious, buy-one-give-one boot company, Roma Boots. The charitable corporation\u2014which gives away a pair of boots for every pair sold\u2014launched in 2010 and now operates in 25 countries across five continents, bringing durable, colorful footwear to kids in need and promoting education in impoverished areas.<\/p>\n<p>Last year alone, the company was able to hand out 30,000 boots to children in seven different countries.<\/p>\n<p>For Bistrian, the gift of rubber boots has roots that reach into his own childhood in Romania.<\/p>\n<p>When Bistrian was just six-years-old, he received his first pair of boots\u2014faded orange and well-worn by his older siblings (he was ninth out of 11 children in his family), the rubber footwear meant he could help work the small plot of land his family depended on for food without worry of injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/this-video-game-is-helping-kids-with-special-needs\/\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">READ MORE: T<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/this-video-game-is-helping-kids-with-special-needs\/\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">HIS VIDEO GAME IS HELPING KIDS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just this excited kid with his first pair of rain boots,\u201d Bistrian tells Guideposts.org. \u201cThey meant so much to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Bistrian was eight-years-old, his family migrated to the United States. Though his days of eating molded bread for dinner were gone, Bistrian&#8217;s new life in America was far from charmed.<\/p>\n<p>The family settled in a 13-story high-rise in a gang-infested neighborhood, living off welfare and sharing a two-bedroom apartment. Still, Bistrian remembers his early years with nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething I recall from a very young age was that my parents instilled in us a sense of hope and gratitude,\u201d Bistrian explains. \u201cWe knew we had this opportunity that was given to us and we wanted to make the best of it and eventually use that opportunity to help others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bistrian grew up and took his parent\u2019s lessons to heart, spending time in Cuba and Colombia doing humanitarian work before eventually getting married and landing a job at Neiman Marcus. The experience was both rewarding and eye-opening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[In America,], people are paying thousands of dollars for a coat which is a salary for people in these poor countries,\u201d Bistrian says. The disparity made him want to act.<\/p>\n<p>It was during this time that he met Blake Mycoskie, the founder of Toms Shoes, a nonprofit footwear company that gives a pair of shoes to someone in need for every pair sold.<\/p>\n<p>The concept sparked an idea in Bistrian. While Mycoskie\u2019s company was committed to selling and giving canvas footwear, Bistrian saw a vacuum for the kind of shoes he treasured as a boy growing up in Romania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRain boots are a much more practical, sanitary, durable product,\u201d Bistrian explains. \u201cAnd I remember how much they meant to me as a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bistrian went to colleagues at Neiman Marcus and his siblings\u2014some of whom had started their own non-profits to help abused and impoverished children here in the States and overseas\u2014for financial help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no idea what I was doing,\u2019 Bistrian says. \u201cI just said, \u2018I\u2019m going to start a rain boots company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He spent four-years, working 17-hour days without pay, selling his car and other valuables on E-Bay and recruiting volunteers, to help him get his company off the ground. It\u2019s name, Roma, is \u201camor\u201d spelled backwards \u2013 a testament to the labor of love involved to get his shoes to kids in need.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas following the company\u2019s launch, Bistrian was able to go back to his hometown in Romania and hand out 5,000 boots to the community. The experience was life-changing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just gloomy and gray outside that day, and then we pull up with this van full of bright, colorful rain boots,\u201d Bistrian explains. \u201cI said, \u2018Wow, I really want to dedicate my time to not only creating this experience for kids throughout Romania, but throughout the world.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Six years later, Roma Boots is not only donating shoes, the company has also launched a foundation, partnering with learning centers and schools in impoverished areas to encourage kids in their quest for an education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/sharing-her-dream-with-homeless-teens\/\">READ MORE: SHARING HER DREAM WITH HOMELESS TEENS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur endgame is not to fill every community around the world with Roma Boots, but to educate and help them break the cycle of poverty by inspiring hope, by educating them, by helping them understand that they can do what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Bistrian says. \u201cThe boots aren\u2019t a handout. They\u2019re simply a conduit for something greater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bistrian says the reason he does what he does is to give back what he was given as a child: hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery person, at the end of their life, reflects on it and says \u2018Was my life meaningful? Did I leave my footprints in this world?\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cWhen I see what I can do for just one child, it fills me with a joy that I can\u2019t explain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll consider his job done when his company is able to truly give poverty the boot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf, as a result of Roma Boots going into this village in Uganda or this village in Nepal or Nicaragua, those kids are off to college or are off doing something meaningful for other people in the world, that\u2019s when [I\u2019ll consider] Roma Boots a success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Bistrian is merging fashion and philanthropy with his socially conscious, buy-one-give-one boot company, Roma Boots. The charitable corporation\u2014which gives away a pair of boots for every pair sold\u2014launched in 2010 and now operates in 25 countries across five continents, bringing durable, colorful footwear to kids in need and promoting education in impoverished areas. 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