Trade Credit Re supports “Blind Challenge” September 2007

The human adventure of “Blind Challenge”, an association which aims to help disabled people with their personal development, could not go unnoticed by Trade Credit Re.
In fact, our company sponsored the latest expedition carried out by the non-profit-making association founded by the blind mountaineer Philippe Dumonceau, namely the attempt to scale the 7,134 metre high Peak Lenin in Tajikistan (Central Asia), under the “TCRE EXPEDITION” banner.

The Blind Challenge Association was founded in 2005 as a result of the desire of the blind adventurer, Philippe Dumonceau, and his guides to open up challenges to other people and make a wider public aware of the relative nature of visual disability. The main activities on offer are Alpine ski-ing, hiking at medium and high altitudes and indoor and rock climbing. Each of these activities enables people to exceed what they thought they were capable of and meet other people. Integration is also encouraged by raising the awareness of a wider public by means of an annual cycle of conferences.

Why was a company like TCRe keen to support Blind Challenge?
The answer is provided by Bernard Rosen, Chairman of TCRe’s Executive Committee:
“The success of a company such as ours is based mainly on its capacity to unify people with different types of know-how, who share a vision in order to achieve a common goal. Enterprising people quickly encounter three types of opponents: those who do the opposite, those who would like to do the same thing but don’t dare to and the great army of people who never do anything. This is where Philippe Dumonceau’s path and ours cross. Instead of being a footnote in history, we have decided to write a page of it, each in our own way.”

The account of this adventure, undertaken under the banner “TCRe Expedition”, is told by the journalist Jean Blavier in the October edition of Trade Credit Reflections.