History

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For years, Quiksilver and Roxy have been actively engaged in charitable activities, both locally and globally. Quiksilver recognises the concept of corporate social responsibility and benevolence. We want our philanthropic work to have impact beyond what we do as one company and believe that we can do this by coordinating the support of other organizations and individuals. The Quiksilver Foundation was formed to bring all of Quiksilver’s charitable giving under one umbrella. The Foundation commenced its activities as a private foundation in October of 2004.

With offices in Europe, Australia and America, Quiksilver has the capability of reaching people worldwide. Quiksilver has the vision of making a difference to community and environment through the Quiksilver Foundation.

The Quiksilver Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to benefiting and enhancing the quality of life for communities of boardriders across the world by supporting environmental, educational, health and youth-related projects.

The Quiksilver Foundation has a commitment to improve the quality of all our lives.

We desire to benefit:

Local Communities, including schools, local charities through support and outreach programs;

Major special projects and organizations sharing our focus on children, education, science, oceans and the environment.

Foundation projects

Water guardians: a growing project

Water guardians: a growing project

Since its creation in 2010, the water guardian project leaded by Cœur de Forêt revitalizes Anambe’s valley (Senegal) through an economic development respecting communities and their environment.

Since the visit of our ambassadors in february 2012, the project has focused its development on 4 main points:

  • 5 000 fruit trees are getting ready in the nursery (lemon trees, orange trees, mango tree, …)
  • 2 acres reforested on the Coeur de Forêt life base site
  • Creation of a fence coupled with lemon tree hedge (600 trees plantes) on the Coeur de foret life base site in order to protect crops from rodents.
  • By developing a market gardening activity (tomato, chili, cassava), the project offers new economic perspectives to the families that will go sell the production on local markets

After 3 years of existence, we are pleased to note that the project is expanding as shown by these few figures:

  • Over 8 500 fruit tress trees planted since 2010
  • 6,5 acres reforested on the Coeur de foret life base site (2,5 acres) and onions land (4 acres)

The water guardians team has fixed two main objectives for 2013 which reveal that the project has a growing influence on the region:

  • Extend the project to 5 surroundings villages
  • Created a new fruit trees plantation area