Month: February 2022

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bench with someone available to help, simply by being there to listen

Stiftung Vision Tibet

Brugg, Schweiz | Augen öffnen im Himalaya und in Tibet | Operationen grauer Star | Spende für Instrumente (Oertli Catharex) und Operationen EN

Vision Himalaya Foundation

Brugg, Switzerland | Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract operations | Donation for instruments (Oertli Catharex) and operations

Terre des hommes Switzerland

Perspectives for young people | Training places for ambassadors against sexual violence.

Women’s hope International

Strong women, safe births, healing of fistula | Donation for girls and women with obstetric fistula in Bangladesh.

Foundation Green Ethiopia

Environment and Development in Ethiopia | Reforestation = Trees-Forests-Water-Food-Life

Nuru Foundation

Alterswil, Switzerland | Fight against maternal and child mortality | Donation for pilot project maternity clinic

Foundation Swiss Surgeons in Ethiopia

trauma surgery care in Jimma | Donation for operations

Vision Himalaya Foundation

Brugg, Switzerland | Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract operations | Donation for instruments (Oertli Catharex) and operations

Dammweg Foundation

Biel, Switzerland | Living and working for people with disabilities | Donation for an excursion with the residents

Pro Mestia Georgia

Dental Clinic in Cholashi Ambulatorium | Donation for further education of Georgian dentists.

Swiss Committee for UNICEF

Zurich, Switzerland | Winter aid for refugee children | Donation for ongoing children’s aid projects.

SOS Children’s Village

A loving home for every child | Therapy for malnourished children in Bangui

Compaterra Foundation

Guggisberg, Switzerland | Support for people with handicaps (visual impairment) | Donation for renovation of exercise hall

ONG Bouge

Centre Bouge in Sékou | Support for orphans and half-orphans in Bénin West Africa | Donation for apprenticeship training

Child’s Dream

Chiang Mai, Thailand | Committed to better opportunities for children, & youth | Donation for Mekong Subregion

Christoffel Blindenmission (Switzerland)

Thalwil, Switzerland | Donation for eye care including aftercare

Comité international de la Croix Rouge CICR

Geneva, Switzerland | Support for countries in crisis and conflict situations | Donation for food, relief supplies, repair of drinking water facilities in Syria

Médecins sans Frontières Suisse

Zurich, Doctors without Borders Switzerland | Donation for ongoing projects

School for the Blind Zollikofen

Zollikofen, Switzerland | Donation for new building and renovation of the school.

Verein Inklusiv – Chrischtehüsli

Contact and counseling center for asylum seekers, migrants, and drug addicts.

Viva con Agua (Switzerland)

Donation Project “Wash”

Women’s hope International

Strong women, safe births, healing of fistula | Donation for girls and women with obstetric fistula Ethiopia.

Amnesty International

Donation to Project Human Rights

Center for the Blind and Disabled Bern

Donation for project Wohnenplus

Vision Himalaya Foundation

Brugg, Switzerland | Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract operations | Donation for instruments (Oertli Catharex) and operations

Swiss Committee for UNICEF

Zurich, Switzerland | Emergency aid winter | Project Rohingya children

Green Ethiopia Foundation

Environment and Development in Ethiopia | Reforestation = Trees-Forests-Water-Food-Life | School Project

Nuru Foundation

Alterswil, Switzerland | Combating maternal and child mortality | Donation for purchase of hospital building

Foundation Swiss Surgeons in Ethiopia

trauma surgery care in Jimma | Donation for project Passing on knowledge

Sambhav Nepal

Donation for construction of boy’s dormitory wing.

Médecins sans Frontières Suisse

Zurich, Doctors without Borders Switzerland | Donation for ongoing projects | Inpatient pediatric ward for children in Mosul

Mercy Ships

Donation for ophthalmologic diagnosis equipment

ONG Bouge

Centre Bouge in Sékou | Support for orphans and half-orphans in Bénin West Africa | Donations for apprenticeship training

Retina Suisse

Counseling, and support for patients with retinal degeneration

Kinderhilfe Emmaus

Provide lunch for school children in Haiti.

Comité international de la Croix Rouge CICR

Geneva, Switzerland | Emergency aid

Evangelical Leprosy Mission

Operations for eyelid closure

Fachstelle Gewalt Bern

Donation for violence counseling

Hilfswerk Estherdebora

Donation for children’s home

Amnesty International

Donation Human Rights Project

Blindenschule – School for the Blind

Zollikofen, Switzerland | Donation for new construction and renovation of the school

Child’s Dream

Chiang Mai, Thailand | Committed to improving opportunities for children and youth | Access to quality education

Christoffel Blindenmission (Switzerland)

Thalwil, Switzerland | Project Mahita; training for ophthalmologists in Madagascar.

Women’s hope International

Strong women, safe births, healing fistula | Donation for girls and women with obstetric fistula, Ethiopia.

Ka Tagnè Switzerland

Association for the Promotion of School and Vocational Training in Mali | Support for the school project in Tagnè

Verein Hope

Integration project for asylum seekers | Student donations

Viva con Agua (Switzerland)

Donation project “Wash”

Nuru Foundation

Alterswil, Switzerland | Donation for setting up Eye Care Service in Tanzania

Stiftung Vision Tibet

Brugg, Switzerland | Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract operations.

Compaterra Foundation

Guggisberg, Switzerland | Provide support for people with handicaps | Donation for signage, flyer, homepage

Médecins sans Frontières Suisse

Zurich, Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland | Donation for ongoing projects | Inpatient pediatric unit for children in Mosul

Mercy Ships

Donation for ophthalmologic diagnosis equipment

ONG Bouge

Centre Bouge in Sékou | Support for orphans and half-orphans in Bénin West Africa | Donations for apprenticeship training.

Retina Suisse

Advice and support for patients with retinal degeneration

Kinderhilfe Emmaus

Daily lunch for school children in Haiti. | The main objective of Kinderhilfe Emmaus is to offer assistance to children and families in need, and to work with them to address, support and create solutions.

Kipepeo Family Foundation

Tanzania | Kipepeo is a registered non-profit organization that provides support to families in difficult circumstances in the surrounding villages of Moshi, Tanzania. The goal is to reduce the number of children living on the streets or growing up in children’s homes.

Child’s Dream

Chiang Mai, Thailand | Increasing Access to Quality Education

Christoffel Blindenmission (Switzerland)

Thalwil, Switzerland | Project Mahita; training eye doctors in Madagascar.

Comité international de la Croix Rouge CICR

Geneva, Switzerland | Emergency Relief Syria

Viva con Agua

Access to clean drinking water and sanitation

Amnesty International

Swiss Section | Donation Project Human Rights

Verein Hope

Bern | Integration project

Verein Kipepeo

Donation in support of program for “Families to improve their social and financial situation”.

Association Swiss Tamils Aid

Vocational training for orphans after a stay in a children’s home

Nuru Foundation

Alterswil, Switzerland | Donation for water project in Majimatitu, Tanzania.

Tante Martha

Lebens- und Begegnungshof | Donation for the construction of the recreation room

Verein ungerwägs

Verein “ungerwägs” Switzerland and Moldova. Accompaniment and practical support for children, young people as well as socially disadvantaged people

UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund | Emergency Relief Yemen

Foundation Green Ethiopia

Donation for the Dara school project

Bächtelen Foundation

clarification-education-integration

Sambhav Nepal

construction of a new school in Manbu. Accommodation for 160 students at the Higher Secondary School.

SBV

Swiss Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Bern | For people with visual impairments

SOS Kinderdorf

donation for Adwa health project in Ethiopia

Sambhav Nepal

construction of elementary school Bhairabi in Ratmate.

Mobile Mini Circus for Children

MMCC, support of a circus school where Afghan children find hope and joy in childhood

ONG Bouge

Centre Bouge in Sékou | Support for orphans and half-orphans in Bénin West Africa | Donations for apprenticeships.

Retina Suisse

Advice and support for patients with retinal degeneration.

Heitere Fahne / Frei_Raum

the collective “Frei_Raum” is a movement that uses free spaces with cultural projects, always involving people with a disability. The theater work has found its main venue in the cultural venue “Heitere Fahne”.

Kinderhilfe Emmaus

construction of elementary school kitchen in Pamidipadu (India)

Child’s Dream

Chiang Mai, Thailand | Children’s Medical Fund

Christoffel Blindenmission (Switzerland)

Thalwil, Switzerland | Project Mahita; training of ophthalmologists in Madagascar

Médecins sans Frontières

Emergency Relief

Beraten B

actively shaping everyday life and work for those with visual impairment.

Visit of Malagasy doctors

We hosted two doctors from the capital of Antananarivo. They obtained an insight into different areas of the activities of the Bern Eye Clinic.

UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund | Emergency Relief Yemen | Forgotten Victims in the COVID Crisis

UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund | Emergency Relief Yemen | Emergency Relief Lebanon | Response to the Explosions in Beirut.

Verein ungerwägs

Switzerland and Moldova | Emergency aid related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Donation of food for the suffering, unemployed population.

Viva con Agua

South Africa | Access to clean drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene training for in schools in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Amnesty International

Swiss Section | Donation for Human Rights

SolidarMed

Lucerne, Switzerland | Awareness raising for patients with diabetes and hypertension

THATHA ITHUBA

Imizano Yethu Township, Cape Town, South Africa | Emergency aid related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Distribution of food vouchers and food bags to the township’s needy population.

Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually and Reading Impaired

funding to produce the audio book “The Unvarnished Life” by Maryse Condé

Sambhav Nepal

Health Post Bungkot | Support for the procurement of medical material for the laboratory of the health post.

Sambhav Nepal

Nepal, Himalayan Ambulance | A blessing for the poorest mountain communities of Nepal

Samaritans Association City of Bern

Samaritans Teacher | A training program for help on the spot

Mobile Mini Circus for Children

MMCC, supporting a circus school where Afghan children find hope and joy in childhood.

Stiftung Nuru

Alterswil, Switzerland | Donation for the water project in Majimatitu, Tanzania

Stiftung Nuru

Alterswil, Switzerland | Donation to fight COVID-19 in Tanzania.

ONG Bouge

Centre Bouge in Sékou | Donation for startup project “Lift-Bénin”. Purchase of agricultural production machinery. Creation of jobs for former landless “BOUGE apprentices” and unemployed university graduates.