A few years ago, when he was dedicated to selling the ONCE couponto play the drums and play football in his free time in his native Alicante, Diego Soliveres He couldn’t imagine that six years later he would live in Valencia and be the partner of one of the most original sneaker brands on the market. Timpers.
Valencia was the city where, together with two other Alicante natives, Diego decided to go in search of his dreams, the same city that, although Timpers has not suffered major damage, was hit by the DANA Just a few days after speaking with Capaces, “everything experienced in the last week has been a true nightmare. We see testimonies of people who have lost everything and the only thing you can think about is how lucky one is to be ‘just’ having lost material things,” the team said in an email a few days ago.
While they recover from the blow, Timpers is little by little recovering its activity and, above all, its work, that of providing work for people with disabilities, since, in fact, it is a company founded and made up almost entirely of people with disabilities. disability and whose sneakers are inclusive and accessible.
However, as Diego likes to emphasize, they are not shoes for the blind, but rather shoes for everyone, shoes that Timpers wants people to buy ‘for quality, not for charity’, as they consider themselves ‘the most normal of the world’.