Flip-flop company Gandys host summer fair at Plymouth University

Ethical flip-flop company Gandys is hosting a summer fair on campus on Monday (20th May) to raise awareness of their mission to support orphaned children around the world. The event has been organised by Enactus:Plymouth, the Students’ Union and the Entrepreneurs Society and will include lots of fun flip-flop theme games, a barbecue and a paint party. Set up by two young entrepreneurs Rob and Paul Forkan who were orphaned by the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004, Gandys aims is to raise enough money to build an orphanage for children in India. The brothers were on a global travelling journey with their parents and in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit. Sadly their parents were lost to the disaster. Determined to turn a negative into a positive, they created the Orphans for Orphans initiative aiming to create a brighter future for orphans is less developed countries. They hope to build their first orphanage in 2014, ten years after the tsunami, but in the meantime they’re donating ten per cent of their flip-flop sale profits to Indian charity Mango Tree Goa, and have already funded education and equipment for more than 100 children.