Smaller projects

Over 50 percent of the workers at the Sozialfirma are living with a disability. Yet, they work in the mainstream labor market for market and industry standard salaries. All of them are proud of their independence and gain confidence through their work. Through the project «labeled workwear» the teams from the departments "cleanandsheen", "treeandgreen" and "training" receive labeled workwear.

”Having rights” and “obtaining justice” are two very different animals, even in Switzerland. The project “Access to Justice” aims at overcoming the hurdles between the two and at accelerating the progress needed to strengthen human rights.

Under the slogan "Opening Chances and Giving a Sense of Purpose", the project prepares people who are not entitled to any social security benefits for their professional reintegration.

The vocational education project "Alusama Froi" in Bangladesh helps adolescents in the Bandarban Hill Tracts who come from an ethnic minority background. It provides the rare opportunity to complete a vocational training program.

Over 300 clothing designers complete their vocational training in Switzerland every year; 95 percent of whom are taught at a training workshop. To assess the whereabouts of professionally trained clothing designers on the labor market, a study was conducted. An according competence analysis indicated their career prospects and the competences that will be required from them in the future.

The host company network “Dreipunkt” offers disadvantaged adolescents and young adults the opportunity to successfully enter the labor market by creating additional vocational education positions. The foundation supports two apprentices who completed the Swiss Federal Vocational Certificate after a two-year-program, and who are now gaining their Swiss Federal VET-Diploma.

The child advocacy “Child-friendly Justice 2020“ aims at incorporating a socially sustainable and child-friendly Swiss legal system by the end of 2020. From 2021 on, an independent, national office of ombudsman for children’s rights will be responsible for the further implementation.

The protestant mission Mission 21 supports a vocational education project in Tanzania. Its aim is to combat the serious issue of youth unemployment together with two partner churches which run schools that are open to Christian and Muslim students.

The association “Super Licorne“ provides a venue to asylum seekers in Vernier near Geneva. It aims at socially integrating children and families and provides them with socio-pedagogical support. Moreover, the association offers a number of additional projects and programs. 

The foundation “Profil Arbeit & Handicap” supports people with disabilities or impairments to health in permanently entering the labor market. It creates an opportunity for people with disabilities to freely choose their field of work by facilitating inclusive positions in alternative settings than those in designated institutions.

With its educational project "Mindful (Re-)Integration“, euforia wants to enable young people with special needs to (re)enter society and to facilitate exchange beyond socio-economic, professional and  educational borders.

Casa Farfalla offers care services for children and adults with mental or multiple disabilities during the holidays, in situations of overload or emergency. Due to the high and increasing demand, Casa Farfalla is expanding its care services.

After the successful publication of practical guidelines on Social Impact Bonds, seif and BHP - Brugger & Partner are planning to conduct three workshops in Zurich, Bern and Lucerne. They aim at deepening the discussion about work integration and at testing various scopes of work integration and their capacity of implementation of an SIB

In Switzerland, more than 500,000 people over the age of 25 do not have any recognized professional qualifications and it is estimated that an even higher number of people has not acquired sufficient basic skills. Therefore, SAGS supports adolescents and adults in gaining access to basic education. ALFA telephone: 0800 0800 11.

On its online platform www.socialstore.ch the Foundation Sovalore has been promoting products that are made at sheltered workshops in social institutions in Switzerland.

The BROKIDS program offers trainings and work experience and thus supports kids between the ages of 11 and 14 when it comes to career choice and finding an apprenticeship that suits them.

Social Impact Bonds (SIB) are new financing instruments in the social and public sectors. As a counterpoint to the often demanding reports that are written in specialized English, seif provides its guidelines in German.

HPI organizes search planes from Malta to assist refugee boats near the Libyan Mediterranean coast that are in distress at sea. HPI closely cooperates with civil society organizations such as Doctors without Borders, Sea-Watch or SOS Mediterranee.

The association mosa!k supports people suffering from dementia. It offers programs in the regions of St.Gallen/Appenzell that help people develop routines and strategies that give structure to their day. One of the programs involves museum visits for demented people and their families.

The web platform humanrights.ch has been informing about international human rights and their application in Switzerland since 1999. The extensive website serves as an important tool for human rights education. It provides complex background information about human rights topics that are supported by vivid illustrations.

The project “CT2 Coaching Transfair” supports unemployed young adults who have completed a vocational apprenticeship in rapidly and sustainably entering into professional life.

The foundation prepares disadvantaged young adults to find employment, an apprenticeship or another suitable solution by putting them to work at sheltered workshops.

The innovative children’s circus is a sociocultural, extracurricular program for younger and older kids.

Under the slogan "Opening Chances and Giving a Sense of Purpose", the project provides new professional perspectives to people with health restrictions.

The web platform humanrights.ch has been informing about international human rights and their application in Switzerland since 1999. The extensive website serves as an important tool for human rights education. It provides complex background information about human rights topics that are supported by vivid illustrations.

The FHS eBusiness Challenge aims at giving secondary school II students an understanding of occupations in the field of business administration and information systems, as well as showing them some attractive professional perspectives.

The business incubator Crescenda conducts a learning, counseling and coaching program for female immigrants and thus helps them in becoming economically independent.

"Empowering Youth 4 Business" - supports young professionals and small businesses in Myanmar

The Compasso-Internet Platform wants to boost reintegration and continued employment of employees with a disability impairing their performance and provides necessary information to this end. In order to have an even greater impact in the future, the three independent organizations Concerto-pro, Think Thank FER and the supporting association Compasso are going to cooperate under the name Compasso.

Mercy Air helps where normally no aid is going. They regularly provide supply by air to secluded an hardly accessible regions in Southern Africa. At present, one of their rescue helicopters urgently needs maintenance.

A revovery week for parents of blind and visually impaired children, as well as children with multiple disabilities.

Supporting the conduct of workshops with school classes from all over Switzerland and of "Open" Ateliers for multi-generation audiences at the children's museum Creaviva.

A partial scholarship is being granted to eight young musicians from five different countries for the participation in Prof. Ulrich Koella’s masterclass (ZHdK – Zurich University of the Arts).

Fürzüg Art & Design is a small business that helps young people who have social and academic difficulties in finding an apprenticeship training position.

The project "Child Care" offers professional and flexible child care for children and adolescents who suffer from mental or multiple disabilities.

The foundation "holiday activities" allows children from single-parent families, underprivileged families, extended families or children’s homes to experience great and unforgettable holiday moments.

The Dock Group, St. Gallen, offers perpetual employment contracts to adolescents who have been long-term unemployed. This pilot project for has been created, since the social security has to support more and more people between the age of 18 and 25 years

The objective of Bayasgalant Children’s aid Mongolia is to support Mongolian children and their families who live below the poverty line. Apart from the existing child care center, they are planning to build and open a preschool in 2014. .

A partial scholarship is being granted to eight young musicians from five different countries for the participation in Prof. Ulrich Koella’s masterclass (ZHdK – Zurich University of the Arts).

The Respect Camp will be conducted again in the city of St. Gallen in the framework of the ’IDA week‘ (Interreligious Dialogue and Action Week). It is going to take place from September 10 to 12, 2013 at the Klosterplatz in St. Gallen.

The Respect Camp is a project for the prevention of violence aiming at adolescents between the ages 13 and 20. It is going to take place from September 19 to 21, 2013 at the Weierwiese in Wil.

The booster club introduced the project ‚Personality Assessments‘ to enhance employment opportunities for job-seeking, qualified immigrants and Swiss remigrants, as well as enable them to become independent.

A voluntary education and sports project combining sports and care work

A sustainaible education and reforestation project in the region of SOFIA (Madagascar)

An innovative extracurricular program for younger and older kids

Improving water, waste water, and hygiene in 20 Bolivian schools

CHF 50'000

Extracurricular tutoring and promotion of integration

CHF 25'000

Supporting the economic development of smallholders in the Amazon region.

CHF 35'000

Practical developmental aid for young people in Romania: The foundation provides help to self-help by training young people in craftsman’s trade in their own country, but by sticking to the Swiss model.

CHF 50'000

Move 4 New Horizons: Holistic early intervention for underprivileged children in Nepal.

The three-year project provides a yearly fund of CHF 30,000, amounting to a total of CHF 90,000.

The Mobile Palliative Care Team supports the local nursing service on site in demanding, complex and time-consuming palliative situations.

The Respect Camp is a project initiated by the churches that promotes peace during its interreligious project week (IDA). The IDA took place in September 2011 on the Kosterplatz square in St.Gallen with over 1,250 visitors.

The little owl is one of the most endangered bird species in Switzerland, with only 70 remaining breeding pairs. A research project by the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach aims at answering various questions concerning the little owl’s spatial use, migration and preservation.

This film was produced by Claudia Pfäffli as partial fulfillment of her MA thesis at the Zurich University of the Arts. It documents on how a theater play against domestic violence in India comes into being.

Research project about criminal law, imprisonment, and prisons in Switzerland; publishing of a handbook including 26 contributions by 15 authors. The Prison Research Association Switzerland in Basel aims at promoting the scientific research of imprisonment as an institution and the socio-historical and economic analysis of Swiss prisons.

The Compasso-Internet-Platform aims at re-integrating and re-employing disabled people in companies and provides necessary information about the issue.
The Association Compasso funds the platform.

“The magic paintbrushes” offer colorful moments through silk painting therapy to ill children who need to stay at the hospital or at home.

Raising awareness among the Swiss public about human rights issues, asylum and aliens law (Image: Jacek Pulawski, 2010)

Food aid for people in need in Switzerland

A holiday resort for people with disabilities in Trogen

New systematics of the mathematics braille

New perspectives for girls
Calcutta, India