Skip to content

About

Our mission

At SoliCap, we create extraordinary and transformative experiences by bringing together a committed ecosystem around tailored solutions. Each project places the person with a disability at the heart of the adventure, enabling them to step outside everyday life, push their limits, experience intense emotions, and achieve their dreams.

Our vision

We envision a world where everyone can live exceptional experiences, believe in their dreams, push beyond limits, and stay attentive to those who need support. A world where adventure becomes a driver of connection and inclusion, where emotions are powerful, and where being part of a meaningful collective journey is possible.

Our values

Inclusion
Inclusion

Creating meaningful connections between able-bodied people and people with disabilities, in a spirit of equality, respect, and openness.

Self-transcendence
Self-transcendence

Living powerful experiences where everyone is invited to step outside their comfort zone and reveal their potential.

Solidarity
Solidarity

Moving forward together, supporting one another, standing united in effort and in joy.

Spirit of adventure
Spirit of adventure

Daring to explore new horizons, push boundaries, and live the extraordinary.

Inspiration
Inspiration

Sparking the desire to take action, showing that the impossible becomes possible, and instilling hope.

Who we are

SoliCap is a non-profit organization founded by Emilie de Gerlache, a social entrepreneur committed to inclusion, solidarity, and self-transcendence. Inspired by her bond with her brother Adrien, who lives with a disability, she shaped a vision where everyone can reach their dreams with the right support.

SoliCap brings this vision to life through strong, inclusive, and transformative collective adventures. Our drive: creating extraordinary experiences for extraordinary people. Our belief: we go further together. Like a rope team, everyone matters, supports one another, and moves forward together. With SoliCap, the impossible becomes possible through collective strength.

Who we are
What makes us unique

What makes us unique

SoliCap is neither a travel agency, a traditional charity, nor a sports club.
It is a movement. A community. A human rope team placing people with disabilities at the center of a shared adventure.

  • Deeply human and emotional experiences, designed to push limits together.
    Tailor-made, ambitious projects for individuals and companies (team-building).
    Challenges combining adventure and solidarity to change perspectives.
    A strong belief: the collective can move mountains.
Set course for the human adventure.
Our team

Our team

Behind SoliCap is a passionate team and a network of volunteers, partners, and experts driven by the same values.

Around Emilie, each person contributes energy and talent. Together, we form a committed rope team with one goal: making adventure accessible to all.

Project drivers

Emilie de Gerlache

Emilie de Gerlache

Founder

Guardians of the course

They ensure the vision, direction, and ethics of the project.

Alfred de Franssu
Alfred de Franssu
Board
Gloria Zuijderhoff
Gloria Zuijderhoff
Board
Louis André-Dumont
Louis André-Dumont
Administrator
Éloïse de Changy
Éloïse de Changy
Administrator

Ambassadors

They embody the spirit of SoliCap: courage, self-transcendence, solidarity, and belief in dreams.

Adrien de Gerlache
Adrien de Gerlache
Heart ambassador and inspiration of SoliCap
Nassim Bennoussaid
Nassim Bennoussaid
Entrepreneurship and inclusion ambassador
Stéphanie Lange
Stéphanie Lange
Inclusion and education ambassador
These are the people who, through their stories, personalities, or actions, inspire the SoliCap community to dream big.
The first rope team — where it all began

The first forces that made the impossible possible.

Before becoming an organization, SoliCap was a rope team: a group of friends, brothers at heart, and adventure companions who said yes to a slightly crazy dream—bringing Adrien to the summit of a 4,000 m peak.
Among them: Charles, Augustin, Charles, Louis, Maxime, Arthur… as well as the guides, pilots, volunteers, loved ones, donors, and sponsors who supported the project from the very beginning.

They united their strength, their hearts, and their courage.
They paved the way.
They proved that Together We Rise is not a slogan—it is an experience to be lived.

Thank you to this first rope team for writing the first page of the SoliCap story.

Thanks to you, it all began—and it continues.

Want to join the SoliCap rope team?

Join the rope team