Vernon Davis has been doing a lot of good lately. Most of you know about his heroics last Saturday where he single handedly helped the San Francisco 49ers win their first playoff game in nine years. He’s also doing heroic things that also need to be taken note of — donating to less fortunate kids in Africa and helping restore Arts programs in D.C. public schools. Checkout what Vernon is doing after the drop
Davis has teamed with popular streetwear brand, Akomplice to make limited edition black and white T-shirts featuring a stylized photographic image of Vernon Davis shot by award-winning photographer Tim Mantoani.
Akomplice and Davis will donate 50% of the proceeds from sales of the white T-shirts to Young Audiences Arts for Learning, the largest single arts education organization in the U.S., serving more than 5 million children annually.
The purchase of a black T-shirt provides a free T-shirt for a child in Africa to be distributed by Starkey Hearing Foundation during an upcoming 2012 mission trip. Starkey Hearing Foundation has given the gift of hearing to more than half a million people around the globe.
“There’s a lot of need everywhere in the world,” says Davis. “This is one way to make a difference in the lives of children in Africa and here at home.”
The T-shirts are available online at the Akomplice website as well as in select stores around the country including TRUE (San Francisco), CRSVR (Las Vegas), MLTD.com, PickYourShoes.com, Reflections 2 (New Orleans), and The Deuce (Artesia, CA). The shirts are also available on Davis’s website.
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Ricky Writer