Digital Alchemy has a long history of supporting schools and orphanages over the years. We have built both schools and orphanages and we have provided ongoing support. The latest addition to that is the Life Program, which we have rolled out to teach young children in Northern Thailand skills beyond academics to survive in a modern world with traditional values. To date, we have over 400 kids in the program, from 5 to 16 years old.
For the past 23 years, we have openly avoided doing business with clients that we feel morally or ethically misaligned with, like tobacco, casinos and gaming, and organisations that do not adhere to our own moral and ethical standards for doing business. This caused us to walk away from profitable business, but I have always believed it to be the right thing for us as a business in the long run.
Three years ago, we decided to embark on a journey to embed our own moral and ethical standards within DA in the context of something bigger and more formal. As we continue to expand the business globally and the business moves beyond the direct influence of its founders, I feel this is an important step for us.
We chose a B Corp™ certification as the path to pursue this objective. It has been a very long and bumpy path to navigate. It has required us to document and formalise many of the things that we have always done instinctively. I’m very proud to announce that we have now achieved B-Corp™ Certification.
It doesn’t really change what we do and how we do it. Instead, it makes it clearer and easier to communicate why we do it to our staff, our partners and our clients, present and future.
