Bonoboss was born at the end of 2011 as a university initiative that sought to create a brand with a social contribution, which would reduce the impact on nature of the accessories industry. That is why we looked for foundations and institutions that had a social impact to support them.
In the beginning, we allocated part of our profits to support the Corporation for Aid to the Visually Impaired (COALIVI) in Concepción, for the construction of a new building, since the earthquake of 27-F had destroyed part of its facilities. You can read more about the original project at this link . This year, thanks to the support of many companies, COALIVI managed to inaugurate its new building and will be able to help more visually impaired people reintegrate into their lives with greater abilities.
The photograph shows the ribbon cutting ceremony, attended by members of the COALIVI board of directors, regional authorities and special guests.
Since 2015, we began the search for reforestation on our planet, we tirelessly contacted many foundations that were dedicated to the reforestation of native species in Chile...
But we never managed to reach an agreement that would focus more on reforestation than on the company or foundation itself...
Sometimes we were even left hanging 🌴... although this can be very frustrating and demotivating, we did not stop searching...
In 2017, we contacted the largest forestry corporation in the country. We sent many emails but still received no response. We even scheduled meetings under the lobby law and they did not take us into account...
That is why we have started 2019 with a different perspective: we want to support communities that live in extreme poverty, a poverty that we as people cannot even imagine exists, by providing them with work, food and education.
We are publishing this article so that other entrepreneurs, other brands, other corporations, can also add social contribution to their brand vision, because it is necessary, and not necessarily with large corporations or foundations, but with small communities that really need it.
We are working together with a small foundation to reforest part of Africa, different places and types of trees, mostly native species. When we think about this, our hearts fill and we begin to hear the sound of nature, the birds singing, the rustling of leaves in the wind, the ecosystem forming again where it once existed but was deforested by the hand of man.
Every order we receive at Bonoboss.com will fund the planting of 5 trees and the provision of work to communities in extreme poverty.
On the other hand, we are helping to ensure that plastic bottle recycling takes place, which also helps the environment a lot. All the seeds from the nurseries (also created by these small communities) are planted in plastic bottles that come from recycling from the same municipalities.
It is a very beautiful cycle and process and we want you to know that there are entrepreneurships and small brands in the world that seek to do things in a different way.
Let us give back to our planet more than it has given us, so that future generations, our grandchildren or nephews, can also enjoy nature as we have done during our lives.
When we manage to plant 1 million trees, our goal will be to get every person in Chile to plant one, so we can plant more than 17 million in our lifetime. It is a dream, but it is not impossible.
