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We share our passion & give back

We believe that companies have a responsibility to do more.

We want to give back to the communities, nature and wildlife where we work and live. Through our community projects, we help integrate young refugees, get disabled people into work, give young Nepalese women access to education, and protect endangered wildlife.

We care for our community

Here are a selection of projects we have been supporting recently.

Christmas giving

Salewa Garden

Dynafit for Snow Leopard Trust

Fighting the storms

Pomoca seal project

Dynafit supports disabled workers

Adaptive climbing by Evolv

Homeless in Bolzano

Salewa Sherpa Girl project

Christmas giving

Each year, during our Christmas dinners, we organise a lottery to collect donations for charity organisations and projects around the world. In 2019, together we collectively donated €41,500, split between four projects: (1) supplying reusable menstrual pads for women in Kenya (2) supporting the municipality of Feltre, which was damaged during the storms hitting Northern Italy in 2018; (3) supporting victims of the 2019 earthquake in Albania; and (4) supporting a South Tyrolean family in need.

Salewa Garden for refugee integration

In our vegetable garden in Bolzano, we help integrate around 15 young refugees by teaching them the basics of farming. We give them the opportunity to do meaningful work, learn how to cultivate organic fruit and vegetables from professional horticulturists, and get in touch with the locals. Our employees can also take home the produce on a weekly basis in exchange for a donation to the project.

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Dynafit for Snow Leopard Trust

The snow leopard is Dynafit's brand symbol and embodies its values and characteristics. Unfortunatly, it's been in danger of extinction, with an estimated 4,000-6,500 cats remaining worldwide. Dynafit organises annual ski touring events to raise money and awareness for the protection of snow leopards. For every vertical meter climbed by each participant, Dynafit donates 1cent to Snow Leopard Trust, an organisation that works to protect the endangered cat through community-based conservation projects. In 2018, €11,000 were donated!

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Fighting the storms

In October 2018, Italy was hit with severe rains and storms. Thousands of hectares of forest were completely razed to the ground, and landslides and floods damaged large parts of the country. As one of our main offices is based in the heart of Veneto, which suffered a lot of damage, we decided to support the local community by helping to clean up and rebuild damaged areas. We donated €11,000-worth of shoes to the civil defence organisation and collected €13,000 to rebuild homes and clean destroyed forests and hiking paths.

Pomoca seal project

Until the 1930s, climbing skins were manufactured from real seal skin. As a tribute to this animal, POMOCA supports a project that fights for the protection of the Saimaa ringed seal in Finland. It's been estimated that there are only 370-380 Saimaa seals remaining in Finland's Lake Saimaa. The project we are supporting mainly works to raise awareness around the issue and organise events to promote alternative fishing methods.

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Dynafit supports disabled workers

We're proud to say that 100% of Dynafit bindings are assembled by disabled workers. This gives them the opportunity to enter the world of work, gain independence and recognition that we believe they deserve. Dynafit collaborates with 3 different social organisations and all together we have around 170 disabled workers working on our products.

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Adaptive climbing by Evolv

Evolv is the only climbing company in the world that makes climbing shoes and foot for adaptive climbers. We work with several Adaptive Groups in the USA to help climbers with physical disabilities. We provided our adaptive foot and climbing shoe for sponsorship of an Italian athlete.

Homeless in Bolzano

In 2019, we collaborated with the Design Faculty of the University of Bolzano (unibz) on a project to help homeless people in Bolzano stay dry and safe during the cold winter months. We donated residual products and material from our warehouse for the Design students to use for creating innovative solutions and objects. The top 3 projects were selected by a committee and will now be produced in larger quantities and distributed to the homeless in Bolzano.

Salewa Sherpa Girl project

The Sherpa Girl project is run in collaboration with a small organisation that works to give young Nepalese girls from poor families access to education. We have identified 9 girls living across various small villages in the Nepalese mountains and we are helping them complete their school education. In 2018, Salewa donated a total of €4,500 to this cause.

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