Category: Education

Insight | Supporting the trainee doctors in Eswatini.

Dr. Ryan Hadaway summarizes the most important events of the year 2025.

Good news from Kipepeo Tanzania

Whether a small store to secure a livelihood, a place at school or the completion of an apprenticeship: 2024 was a year full of courageous steps towards the future.

In Tanzania 13,000 children living in orphanages in 2024

All children in Tanzania should have the opportunity to grow up in a caring, supportive and protective family.

Agroforestry4Future | Agriculture in Uganda

Protect natural resources and create sustainable prospects for people

Insight | Project Southern Africa

Final report by Dr. Rossouw Els at the Good Shepherd Eye Clinic

Insight | Project Southern Africa

Fight4Sight and Medical Mission Eswatini Ophthalmic Traineeship Interim Report by Dr Josh Cummings

Development of skills in agriculture

Project “LIFT-BENIN” Supporting the development of skills in agribusiness careers and access to employment for disadvantaged youth in Benin.

Reunification of families in Tanzania

Annual report and initial situation of the Kipepeo Family Foundation 2021

Ambassadors against sexual violence

Africa and Latin America | Perspectives for young people | Training positions for ambassadors against sexual violence

Trees-Forests-Water-Food-Life

Environment and development in Ethiopia | Reforestation = trees-forests-water-food-life

Georgia | Further education for dentists

Georgia | Dental practice in the Cholashi outpatient clinic | Donation for further training for Georgian dentists

Support for orphans and semi-orphans.

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

Opportunities for children and adolescents

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

Integrated water management

Mozambique and Nepal | Donation to the “Wash” project

Cataract surgeries in the Himalayas

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

School project in Ethiopia

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

Medical trauma surgery

Ethiopia | Trauma surgical care in Jimma | Donate to the project to pass on knowledge sustainably

Construction of a boys’ dormitory in Nepal

Donation for construction of boy’s dormitory wing.

Apprenticeship training in Benin

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

Nonviolent society

Switzerland | Donate to violence counseling

Improvement of education quality in Myanmar

Committed to better opportunities for children, young people | Access to quality education

Training for Ophthalmologists in Madagascar

Project Mahita | Pediatrics and ophthalmology training project in Antananarivo

Support for a school project in Tagne

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

Donation for a student

Switzerland | Integration project for asylum seekers

Water for all

Nepal | Donate to the “Wash” project

Donations for apprenticeships

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

Improving access to high-quality education

Myanmar | Increase access to quality education

Strengthen the surgical capacities of ophthalmologists

Project Mahita | Training as an ophthalmologist in Madagascar

Help for people with migration background

Switzerland, Bern | Integration project, people with a migration background receive practical help.

A family belongs together

Tanzania | Donation for the support program “Families to improve their social and financial situation”

Future prospects after leaving foster care

Sri Lanka | Vocational training for orphans after a stay in a children's home in Kolavil, Ampara and the Sakthi children's home in Asadithivu, Batticaloa.

Environment and development in Ethiopia

Donation for the Dara school project

For people with career goals

Switzerland | Clarification-training-integration

New school accommodation

Nepal | Construction of the new school accommodation in Manbu. Accommodation for 160 students of the higher secondary school

Building a primary school

Nepal | Construction of Bhairabi primary school in Ratmate

Support for orphans and half-orphans

Benin | Center Bouge in Sékou | Donations for apprentice training, support for orphans and half-orphans in West Africa

Kitchen construction for the primary school in Pamidipadu

India | Interim report on the kitchen construction for the primary school in Pamidipadu

Improve pediatric eye care services

Project Mahita | Training as an ophthalmologist in Madagascar

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.

Access to clean drinking water

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

Training for on-site assistance

Switzerland | Train Samaritan teachers to help on site

Job creation in Benin

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.

Agricultural Training in Benin

Centre Bouge in Sékou | Donation for young orphans and half-orphans to enable agricultural training, and subsequent installation in their home villages

Insight | Support for Technicians

Project Southern Africa | Support of two technicians for the Eswatini Diabetic Eye and Foot Screening Programme (EDFS)

Insight | Training Reports

Southern Africa Project | 2021 Training reports of the supported ophthalmologists

Insight | We create training opportunities

Project Southern Africa | Training of ophthalmologists in Eswatini and Mozambique

Insight | Training of Ophthalmologists

The number of people affected by severe visual impairment and blindness in Africa is growing