Socks That Give Books - Bike Pattern
These are such a great gift for the gentleman who has everything,
and a perfect unisex Kris Kringle gift at Christmas.
When you purchase the 'Socks that Give Books' range of Conscious Step Socks you are also financially contributing to the Literacy work of 'ROOM TO READ" This is a not-for-profit enterprise that works to improve literacy in children in low income nations. World Wide it is estimated that over 124 million children and adolescents are not in school, and one in four children in low income nations cannot read. There are 750 million people in the world who cannot read, and two thirds of these are women and girls.
Room to Read have a plan, and it comes with four areas of work;
- Firstly Room to Read work to be involved in teacher training. In many poor nations teachers are poorly trained and rushed through their teacher education to fill vacancies. Room to Read works hard to increase teacher knowledge and expertise
- Provide schools with library facilities
- Provide schools with culturally appropriate books for the children to read.
- Focus on gender equality in education for children
These comfortable socks feature a reinforced heel and toe to ensure durability and comfort.
- Size: Available in Medium: USA Men’s 8-13, Women’s 9-14 and
- Large: Men's 13+ and Women's 14+
- Fair Trade, GOTS and Vegan certified
- 75% Sustainable Organic Cotton, 15% Elastane, 8% Polyamide, 2% Spandex
- Machine wash warm.
- Seamless Toe and Terry Padding for extra comfort
- Made in India
Conscious Step also supports 1% for the planet, where the company commits to give at least 1% of their annual sales to environmental organisations.
All of our products are packaged and shipped to you from our store in Melbourne, Victoria by our small team. We use FSC certified paper bags that are padded with recycled paper pulp. When your products don't fit in one of our parcel bags, we try and reuse boxes that have been sent to us.
Postage is $12.00 flat rate, 15.00 for express in Australia, $15.00 flat rate for New Zealand and FREE POSTAGE for orders over $200.00*.
We usually ship your order within 2 business days through Australia Post. Express Post is also available and can be selected at checkout.
Hampers
*When ordering more than one hamper or gift pack you will need to fill out our order form where you will then be contacted by our staff with a postage quote.
Gift Wrapping
We will happily gift wrap products for an extra $2. This can be added at checkout along with a short note to the person receiving the gift.
When purchasing multiple products don't forget to include in your order notes if you would like the products to be wrapped separately or all together. Around Christmas time, please specify if it is a Christmas gift or not so we can choose the wrapping paper accordingly.
Our products are a curated selection of intentional and purposeful items which work towards alleviating global issues and inequities. Many of our products hold Fair Trade Certifications from the World Fair Trade Organisation, Fair Trade Australia & New Zealand as well as sustainable textile certifications such as the GOTS Certification. Read more about our product selection process here.