LillyPad Blog and Video: Walking in Someone Else's Shoes <br /><br />by David Marbaugh <br /><br />Krista Brantly loves shoes. Not because she wants to make a statement of fashion, but because she has a heart of compassion. <br /><br />Krista, a Lilly colleague with our human resources team in Indianapolis, traveled to Tanzania last year as part of our Connecting Hearts Abroad employee volunteer program. She worked with children at a school—many who arrived each day with shoes too big, too small, or with laces frayed and torn. Some kids she saw had no shoes at all. <br /><br />Like so many of our Connecting Hearts Abroad ambassadors, Krista was deeply affected by her experience. As she shared in an internal blog for our Lilly family: <br /><br />I can't stop thinking about shoes. I thought of the little boy at school with his toes sticking out of the end of his tennis shoes. Then I thought of all the shoes in my closet. The chasm between these two worlds is mind boggling ... I want to live with an awareness of that other world,
