dZi Foundation
PO Box 632 Ridgway, CO 81432
The dZi Foundation was founded in 1998 by longtime mountaineers Jim Nowak and Kim Reynolds. While leading a trek in Nepal, Jim and Kim encountered a safe house for girls that was failing financially. After returning to the US, they organized dZi’s first fundraising effort — an expedition to climb a new route on the Himalayan peak, Pumori. dZi pledged to support the girls in the safe house until they had graduated from college or received vocational training – a promise that dZi kept over the next two decades.