You can count on us, kids!

Success is an obligation; we’ve been convinced of that for a long time. And we love giving back, especially when others gain a new and better perspective on their future through our efforts. For years we’ve been supporting social institutions and projects that work with children and youngsters, irrespective of their nationality, faith or background and who help them change their circumstances.

The most prominent example is “SOS Children’s Villages”. Orphans and abandoned children find a safe home in the SOS Children’s Villages where they can grow up in an SOS family with a feeling of security. After many mutual initiatives in recent years, we’ve been so convinced of the SOS concept that we wanted to be engaged even more.

We have entered into a long-term partnership with the SOS organisation; we will team up with them and build and maintain a complete village in Alibaug. Here, on India’s south-west coast, close to Mumbai, a new home for 140 children will be developed. There will be a kindergarten — also for other kids in the neighbourhood — and there will be a social centre. It will give single mothers in the poor surrounding communities the support they need to build an independent future for themselves and their children.

Our employees are very involved in this partnership. Everyone is informed about the project’s progress and, in the typical Esprit way, they roll up their sleeves and help.

We support a children’s hospice, we help Cleft-Children International, an organisation that operates on and cares for children who are born with a cleft palate all over the world. We also take care of those in our own backyard; Esprit employees dress up as Santa Claus and make wishes come true for children in need.

You can count on Esprit, kids!

In the new SOS Children’s Village of Alibaug, 140 abandoned children will find a safe, new home. The village consists of fourteen family homes offering space to live and grow. In this nurturing environment, a child can be a child, and find the security and help to develop into a responsible and life-affirming human being. Over 500 mostly single mothers find what they need in the social centre next door.