10-year-old starts sock business, raising money for charity along the way

CBC Kids News • Published 2 hours ago

Portion of proceeds go to local charity

Thousands of toes across Canada are going to be a little warmer this holiday season thanks to one ambitious 10-year-old.

Treyton Walcott, a young entrepreneur from Winnipeg, started selling socks last month to make money and raise some funds for charity.

Through his business, called Super Socks, he’s been mailing out hundreds of orders of socks with some majorly cute and fun designs.

Treyton Walcott’s Super Socks feature fun prints like tacos, avocados, french fries, flamingos and other cute designs. (Image credit: buysupersocks/Instagram)

How it started

Starting a business has been Treyton’s dream for a while now, but it wasn’t until last month that his parents gave him the green light.

“I always wanted to be an entrepreneur and I thought, why not [go] into the business of selling socks?” Treyton told CBC Manitoba’s Up To Speed.

To help him start, Treyton’s parents bought 120 pairs of fun, colourful socks online and Treyton got to work wrapping each individual order.

For extra motivation, they told him that for every pair he sold from that initial order, they’d donate a pair to Siloam Mission, a local charity that helps provide support for people experiencing homelessness.

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