Insight | Project Southern Africa
Final report by Dr. Rossouw Els at the Good Shepherd Eye Clinic
Direct assistance to people in difficult situations
Switzerland | Contact and advice center for asylum seekers, migrants and drug addicts
Diabetes and high blood pressure treatment
Zimbabwe | Awareness raising for patients with diabetes and hypertension
Heitere Fahne: hall roof renovation
Donation for renovation of 150-year-old hall roof
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
School project in Ethiopia
Environment and Development in Ethiopia | Reforestation = Trees-Forests-Water-Food-Life | School Project
Emergency assistance through medical care
Emergency Aid Yemen. Medical supplies for people in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises
Medical emergency relief in Iraq
Donate to ongoing projects | Inpatient pediatric department for children in Mosul
Donation for instruments and surgeries
Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract surgeries | Donations for instruments (Oertli Catharex) and surgeries
Support for people with visual impairments
Switzerland | Swiss Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired, Bern
Eye care service in Tanzania
Donation to establish Eye Care Service in Tanzania
Displaced populations in Iraq
Doctors Without Borders Switzerland | Donate to ongoing projects | Inpatient pediatric department for children in Mosul
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.
Construction and renovation of a blind school
Zollikofen, Switzerland | Donation for new construction and renovation of the school
Project human rights
Worldwide | Donation Project Human Rights
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.
Kitchen construction for the primary school in Pamidipadu
India | Interim report on the kitchen construction for the primary school in Pamidipadu
Treatment of malnourished children in Bangui
Central African Republic | A loving home for every child | Therapy for malnourished children in Bangui
Help for those in need in Syria
Indescribable suffering and destruction in years of conflict
Mobile clinics in the mountain communities of Nepal
Himalayan Ambulance | A blessing for the poorest mountain communities in Nepal
Support for the Fistula Center in Asella
Project Update 2018 | Strong Women, Safe Births, Fistula Healing | Donation for girls and women with obstetric fistulas Ethiopia
Improvement of education quality in Myanmar
Committed to better opportunities for children, young people | Access to quality education
Protect children of single parents
Donation for the Adwa health project in Ethiopia
Insight | Project Southern Africa
Interim Report by Dr. Rossouw Els
Emergency aid for refugee Rohingya children
Myanmar | Emergency aid winter | Rohingya Children Project
Eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe
Specialized eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe
Integrated water management
Mozambique and Nepal | Donation to the “Wash” project
Sustainable Healthcare in Tanzania
Equipping the mobile clinic with solar energy will not only ensure healthcare services but also support long-term self-sustainability
Apprenticeship training in Benin
Centre Bouge in Sékou | Support for orphans and half-orphans in Bénin West Africa | Donations for apprenticeship training
Help for people with migration background
Switzerland, Bern | Integration project, people with a migration background receive practical help.
Ambassadors against sexual violence
Africa and Latin America | Perspectives for young people | Training positions for ambassadors against sexual violence
Emergency aid for Yemen
The United Nations Children's Fund
Preservation of Human Rights
Worldwide | Donate to Project Human Rights
Access to eye care treatments
In the poverty-stricken areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America | Donation for eye medical care including aftercare
Water project for hospital
Tanzania | Donation for the water project in Majimatitu
Donation to a blind school
Zollikofen, Switzerland | Donation for new building and renovation of the school.
Research on degenerative retinal diseases
Switzerland | Advice and support for patients with retinal degeneration
Support for orphans and semi-orphans.
Centre Bouge in Sékou | Support for orphans and half-orphans in Bénin West Africa | Donation for apprenticeship training
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
Trees-Forests-Water-Food-Life
Environment and development in Ethiopia | Reforestation = trees-forests-water-food-life
A slightly different Christmas
Moldova | Accompaniment and practical support for children, young people and the socially disadvantaged
Reunification of families in Tanzania
Annual report and initial situation of the Kipepeo Family Foundation 2021
Environment and development in Ethiopia
Donation for the Dara school project
Support for orphans and half-orphans
Benin | Center Bouge in Sékou | Donations for apprentice training, support for orphans and half-orphans in West Africa
Project human rights
Worldwide | Donate to Project Human Rights
Excursion for people with disabilities
Biel, Switzerland | Living and working for people with disabilities | Donation for an excursion with the residents
Prevention of retinal diseases
Switzerland | Advice and support for patients with retinal degeneration
Help where it is needed most
Worldwide | Helping people in need in a total of 24 countries. Help for victims of wars and conflicts
Mobile clinics for mountain regions in Nepal
Final Report HimalayanAmbulance | A blessing for the poorest of the mountain communities.
Deployment of a mobile clinic in Tanzania
Provision and deployment of a mobile clinic to provide medical supplies to the population in Ikungi District, Tanzania, with the main focus: on mother and child.
Cataract surgeries in the Himalayas
Tibet | Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract operations | Donation for instruments (Oertli Catharex) and operations
Commitment to human rights
Worldwide | Donate for human rights
Medical care in Tanzania
Fight against maternal and child mortality | Donation for pilot project maternity clinic
Supporting a circus school
Afghanistan | MMCC, supporting a circus school where Afghan children find hope and joy in childhood
Insight | Eye care
Southern Africa Project | For improved eye health care in Eswatini
A family belongs together
Tanzania | Donation for the support program “Families to improve their social and financial situation”
Strengthen the surgical capacities of ophthalmologists
Project Mahita | Training as an ophthalmologist in Madagascar
Insight | We create training opportunities
Project Southern Africa | Training of ophthalmologists in Eswatini and Mozambique
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
Eye camp in Ladakh
Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract operations | Donation for instruments (Oertli Catharex) and operations
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.
Accompany patients with retinal degeneration
Switzerland | Advice and support for patients with retinal degeneration
Vegetable seeds for women’s households
environment, and development in Ethiopia | Donation for vegetable seeds for 487 women-led households in Ethiopia.
Training for Ophthalmologists in Madagascar
Project Mahita | Pediatrics and ophthalmology training project in Antananarivo
Eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe
Final Report Zimbabwe. Specialized eye care for diabetics.
Insight | Supporting the trainee doctors in Eswatini.
Dr. Ryan Hadaway summarizes the most important events of the year 2025.
Insight | Project Southern Africa
Container on the move.
Mission after explosions in Beirut
Emergency aid Lebanon | The United Nations Children's Fund
Finding hope and joy in childhood
Afghanistan | MMCC, supporting a circus school where Afghan children find hope and joy in childhood
School lunch for children in Haiti
Nutrition program at the Center St. Joseph in Gonaives
Cataract surgeries in Tibet
Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Vision Himalaya will put its third eye center into operation in December 2018.
Partnership project Fight4Sight and Helvetas
ensuring a hygienically improved treatment for the population in the region of Alibori, Bénin, through the restoration of 12 health centers (access to clean water).
Insight | Support for Technicians
Project Southern Africa | Support of two technicians for the Eswatini Diabetic Eye and Foot Screening Programme (EDFS)
Implementation of Biodigester in Benin
Alliance Nature
Mobile clinic in Tanzania
Project Report - Mobile NURU Clinic
Medical trauma surgery
Ethiopia | Trauma surgical care in Jimma | Donate to the project to pass on knowledge sustainably
Opening eyes in the Himalayas
Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract operations | Donation for instruments (Oertli Catharex) and operations
Ophthalmic care in Madagascar
Switzerland | Project MAHITA, Madagascar, development, and expansion of ophthalmic care in the country.
Emergency relief after flooding
Moldova | Emergency Aid Water Supply
Drinking water and sanitation
Africa, Sub-Sahara | Access to clean drinking water and sanitation
Improve pediatric eye care services
Project Mahita | Training as an ophthalmologist in Madagascar
Georgia | Further education for dentists
Georgia | Dental practice in the Cholashi outpatient clinic | Donation for further training for Georgian dentists
Emergency aid for forgotten victims in the COVID crisis
Yemen | The United Nations Children's Fund
For people with career goals
Switzerland | Clarification-training-integration
Distribution of laboratory materials in Nepal
Health Post Bungkot | Support for the procurement of medical material for the laboratory of the health post.
Visual impairment and blindness
Switzerland | Actively manage everyday life and work with visual impairments
Ambulances for Nepal
Access to primary health care in remote mountain regions in Nepal.
Construction of a boys’ dormitory in Nepal
Donation for construction of boy’s dormitory wing.
Food for migrant workers and refugees
India | Emergency aid in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, donation of food for migrant workers in Punjab, Rohyngja refugees in Delhi and Bangalore
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.
Aid for people in war zones
Worldwide emergency aid
Insight | Training of Ophthalmologists
The number of people affected by severe visual impairment and blindness in Africa is growing
Training and therapy for people and animals
Guggisberg, Switzerland | Provide support for people with handicaps | Donation for signage, flyer, homepage
Work in Sight
Professional integration of people with migration experience
Interim Report of Heitere Fahne
Support contribution for special activities during the pandemic period
Life-saving medical interventions for children
Myanmar und Laos | Children's Medical Fund
A dialy lunch for students
Haiti | The main aim of the Emmaus Children's Aid is to support children and families in need in developing countries and to work with them to address the root causes of their suffering.
Support during the COVID Pandemic
Donation to fight COVID-19 in Tanzania
Sanctuary Farm Tante Martha
Switzerland | Life and meeting place | Contribution for the construction of the lounge
Renovation of health centers in Benin
Final Report 2023 | Rehabilitation of health centers Benin
Food for those in need
Switzerland and Moldova | Emergency aid project Moldova, donation of food for the needy, unemployed population
Donation for the needy population
Moldova | Emergency aid related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Donation of food for the suffering, unemployed population.
Water project in Tanzania
Donation to the water project in Majimatitu, Tanzania
Food | Aid Goods | Drinking Water Systems
Support countries in crisis/conflict situations | Donation for food, relief supplies, repair of drinking water systems in Syria
Surgeries in Nepal
Operations for eyelid closure
Donation for a student
Switzerland | Integration project for asylum seekers
Insight | Project Southern Africa
Arrival container in Siteki
Healthcare facility in Tanzania
Combating maternal and child mortality | Donation for the purchase of the hospital building
Distribution of food vouchers
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.
Support for people with disabilities
Guggisberg, Switzerland | Support for people with handicaps (visual impairment) | Donation for renovation of exercise hall
Eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe
Interim report: Specialized eye care for diabetics in Zimbabwe
Renovation of Health Centers in Benin
Renovation of health centers in Bénin: progress in 2022
Healing of women with obstetric fistulas
Project Update | Strong Women, Safe Births, Fistula Healing | Donation for girls and women with obstetric fistulas Ethiopia
The creative and theater studio in the Heitere Fahne
Switzerland | The “Frei_Raum” collective is a movement that occupies open spaces with cultural projects and always includes people with disabilities. The theater work has found its main venue in the “Heitere Fahne” cultural venue
Living independently with support
Switzerland | Donation to the Wohnenplus project
Support for children in need
Ukraine and Moldova | Donation for children's home
Opportunities for children and adolescents
Chiang Mai, Thailand | Committed to better opportunities for children & youth | Donation for Mekong Subregion
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.
Nonviolent society
Switzerland | Donate to violence counseling
Emergency relief program in Nepal
emergency relief program together with Nepal Ambulances to provide medical supplies during second COVID-19 wave in Gorkha District, Nepal
Support for needy families
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.
Insight | use of in-kind donations
Southern Africa Project | Use of donated equipment and supplies
Healing girls and women with obstetric fistulas
Strong women, safe births, healing of fistula | Donation for girls and women with obstetric fistula in Bangladesh.
New Vision for farmer Aser Roger
Cameroon | Donation for ophthalmological diagnostic devices
Insight | Report by Dr. Christof Hänsli
Project Southern Africa | Report by Dr. med. Christof Hänsli after two weeks stay at the Good Shepherd Hospital in Eswatini
Improving access to high-quality education
Myanmar | Increase access to quality education
Eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe
Interim report SolidarMed in December 2022. Thanks to the support of Fight4Sight, the project "Specialized Eye Care for Diabetics in Zimbabwe" can be completed in a timely manner.
Insight | Project Southern Africa
Fight4Sight and Medical Mission Eswatini Ophthalmic Traineeship Interim Report by Dr Josh Cummings
Water for all
Nepal | Donate to the “Wash” project
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.
Audiobook sponsorship
Switzerland | Financing the production of the audio book “The Unvarnished Life” by Maryse Condé
Trauma surgery care in Ethiopia
Trauma surgical care in Jimma | Donation for operations
Reports from the field
Jemen, Sambia, Irak, Nigeria und Demokratische Republik Kongo | Ärzte ohne Grenzen Schweiz | Spende für laufende Projekte
The largest hospital ship in the world
Donation for ophthalmologic diagnosis equipment
Renovation of health centers in Benin
Brief update on results achieved in health centers in Bénin.
Training for on-site assistance
Switzerland | Train Samaritan teachers to help on site
Agroforestry4Future | Agriculture in Uganda
Protect natural resources and create sustainable prospects for people
Hope through mobile clinics in Iraq
Klinomobil – medical care for refugees in remote places in northern Iraq
Specialized eye treatments for diabetics
Lucerne, Switzerland | Specialized eye care for diabetics
Support for refugee children
Switzerland | Winter aid for refugee children | Donate to ongoing children's aid projects
Donations for apprenticeships
Centre Bouge in Sékou | Support for orphans and half-orphans in Bénin West Africa | Donations for apprenticeship training.
Biogas plant in Benin
Centre Bouge in Sékou | Construction and installation of a biogas plant to produce biogas and biofertilizer in the training center
Insight | Training Reports
Southern Africa Project | 2021 Training reports of the supported ophthalmologists
Newsletter: mobile clinic in Tanzania
Newsletter November 2021
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.
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