Access to eye care treatments

In the poverty-stricken areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America | Donation for eye medical care including aftercare

Mission after explosions in Beirut

Emergency aid Lebanon | The United Nations Children's Fund

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

Water project in Tanzania

Donation to the water project in Majimatitu, Tanzania

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.

Living independently with support

Switzerland | Donation to the Wohnenplus project

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

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.

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

Support for refugee children

Switzerland | Winter aid for refugee children | Donate to ongoing children's aid projects

Eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe

Final Report Zimbabwe. Specialized eye care for diabetics.

Ophthalmic care in Madagascar

Switzerland | Project MAHITA, Madagascar, development, and expansion of ophthalmic care in the country.

Medical trauma surgery

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

Insight | use of in-kind donations

Southern Africa Project | Use of donated equipment and supplies

Trauma surgery care in Ethiopia

Trauma surgical care in Jimma | Donation for operations

Food | Aid Goods | Drinking Water Systems

Support countries in crisis/conflict situations | Donation for food, relief supplies, repair of drinking water systems in Syria

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

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.

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.

Training and therapy for people and animals

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

Donation for a student

Switzerland | Integration project for asylum seekers

School lunch for children in Haiti

Nutrition program at the Center St. Joseph in Gonaives

Support for orphans and half-orphans

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

Construction and renovation of a blind school

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

Support for people with visual impairments

Switzerland | Swiss Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired, Bern

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.

Eye care service in Tanzania

Donation to establish Eye Care Service in Tanzania

Insight | Project Southern Africa

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

Food for those in need

Switzerland and Moldova | Emergency aid project Moldova, donation of food for the needy, unemployed population

Insight | We create training opportunities

Project Southern Africa | Training of ophthalmologists in Eswatini and Mozambique

Help where it is needed most

Worldwide | Helping people in need in a total of 24 countries. Help for victims of wars and conflicts

School project in Ethiopia

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

Hope through mobile clinics in Iraq

Klinomobil – medical care for refugees in remote places in northern Iraq

Donation for instruments and surgeries

Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Cataract surgeries | Donations for instruments (Oertli Catharex) and surgeries

A family belongs together

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

Preservation of Human Rights

Worldwide | Donate to Project Human Rights

Vegetable seeds for women’s households

environment, and development in Ethiopia | Donation for vegetable seeds for 487 women-led households in Ethiopia.

Opportunities for children and adolescents

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

Newsletter: mobile clinic in Tanzania

Newsletter November 2021

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.

Donation for the needy population

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

Georgia | Further education for dentists

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

Training for on-site assistance

Switzerland | Train Samaritan teachers to help on site

Treatment of malnourished children in Bangui

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

Aid for people in war zones

Worldwide emergency aid

Emergency relief after flooding

Moldova | Emergency Aid Water Supply

Emergency assistance through medical care

Emergency Aid Yemen. Medical supplies for people in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises

Audiobook sponsorship

Switzerland | Financing the production of the audio book “The Unvarnished Life” by Maryse Condé

Interim Report of Heitere Fahne

Support contribution for special activities during the pandemic period

Work in Sight

Professional integration of people with migration experience

Nonviolent society

Switzerland | Donate to violence counseling

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

Heitere Fahne: hall roof renovation

Donation for renovation of 150-year-old hall roof

Apprenticeship training in Benin

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

Training for Ophthalmologists in Madagascar

Project Mahita | Pediatrics and ophthalmology training project in Antananarivo

Project human rights

Worldwide | Donation Project Human Rights

Project human rights

Worldwide | Donate to Project Human Rights

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.

Protect children of single parents

Donation for the Adwa health project in Ethiopia

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).

Displaced populations in Iraq

Doctors Without Borders Switzerland | Donate to ongoing projects | Inpatient pediatric department for children in Mosul

Reunification of families in Tanzania

Annual report and initial situation of the Kipepeo Family Foundation 2021

Building a primary school

Nepal | Construction of Bhairabi primary school in Ratmate

Direct assistance to people in difficult situations

Switzerland | Contact and advice center for asylum seekers, migrants and drug addicts

Support for children in need

Ukraine and Moldova | Donation for children's home

Drinking water and sanitation

Africa, Sub-Sahara | Access to clean drinking water and sanitation

Donation to a blind school

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

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

Surgeries in Nepal

Operations for eyelid closure

New school accommodation

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

Mobile clinic in Tanzania

Project Report - Mobile NURU Clinic

Help for people with migration background

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

Kitchen construction for the primary school in Pamidipadu

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

Cataract surgeries in the Himalayas

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

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.

Support for people with disabilities

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

Improve pediatric eye care services

Project Mahita | Training as an ophthalmologist in Madagascar

Water project for hospital

Tanzania | Donation for the water project in Majimatitu

Help for those in need in Syria

Indescribable suffering and destruction in years of conflict

Strengthen the surgical capacities of ophthalmologists

Project Mahita | Training as an ophthalmologist in Madagascar

Emergency aid for forgotten victims in the COVID crisis

Yemen | The United Nations Children's Fund

New Vision for farmer Aser Roger

Cameroon | Donation for ophthalmological diagnostic devices

Improvement of education quality in Myanmar

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

Accompany patients with retinal degeneration

Switzerland | Advice and support for patients with retinal degeneration

Medical care in Tanzania

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

Sustainable Healthcare in Tanzania

Equipping the mobile clinic with solar energy will not only ensure healthcare services but also support long-term self-sustainability

Cataract surgeries in Tibet

Opening eyes in the Himalayas and Tibet | Vision Himalaya will put its third eye center into operation in December 2018.

For people with career goals

Switzerland | Clarification-training-integration

Support during the COVID Pandemic

Donation to fight COVID-19 in Tanzania

Water for all

Nepal | Donate to the “Wash” project

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

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.

Ambulances for Nepal

Access to primary health care in remote mountain regions in Nepal.

Reports from the field

Jemen, Sambia, Irak, Nigeria und Demokratische Republik Kongo | Ärzte ohne Grenzen Schweiz | Spende für laufende Projekte

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

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.

Ambassadors against sexual violence

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

Integrated water management

Mozambique and Nepal | Donation to the “Wash” project

Insight | Project Southern Africa

Container on the move.

Life-saving medical interventions for children

Myanmar und Laos | Children's Medical Fund

Excursion for people with disabilities

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

Finding hope and joy in childhood

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

Donations for apprenticeships

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

Eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe

Interim report: Specialized eye care for diabetics in Zimbabwe

Medical emergency relief in Iraq

Donate to ongoing projects | Inpatient pediatric department for children in Mosul

Agroforestry4Future | Agriculture in Uganda

Protect natural resources and create sustainable prospects for people

Emergency aid for refugee Rohingya children

Myanmar | Emergency aid winter | Rohingya Children Project

The largest hospital ship in the world

Donation for ophthalmologic diagnosis equipment

Supporting a circus school

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

Eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe

Specialized eye treatments for diabetics in Zimbabwe

Insight | Project Southern Africa

Arrival container in Siteki

Commitment to human rights

Worldwide | Donate for human rights

Environment and development in Ethiopia

Donation for the Dara school project

Sanctuary Farm Tante Martha

Switzerland | Life and meeting place | Contribution for the construction of the lounge

Improving access to high-quality education

Myanmar | Increase access to quality education

Insight | Project Southern Africa

Interim Report by Dr. Rossouw Els

Insight | Support for Technicians

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

Distribution of laboratory materials in Nepal

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

Emergency aid for Yemen

The United Nations Children's Fund

Eye camp in Ladakh

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

Research on degenerative retinal diseases

Switzerland | Advice and support for patients with retinal degeneration

Specialized eye treatments for diabetics

Lucerne, Switzerland | Specialized eye care for diabetics

Insight | Training Reports

Southern Africa Project | 2021 Training reports of the supported ophthalmologists

A slightly different Christmas

Moldova | Accompaniment and practical support for children, young people and the socially disadvantaged

Opening eyes in the Himalayas

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

Construction of a boys’ dormitory in Nepal

Donation for construction of boy’s dormitory wing.

Renovation of health centers in Benin

Brief update on results achieved in health centers in Bénin.

Mobile clinics for mountain regions in Nepal

Final Report HimalayanAmbulance | A blessing for the poorest of the mountain communities.

Support for orphans and semi-orphans.

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

Insight | Training of Ophthalmologists

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

Mobile clinics in the mountain communities of Nepal

Himalayan Ambulance | A blessing for the poorest mountain communities in Nepal

Prevention of retinal diseases

Switzerland | Advice and support for patients with retinal degeneration

Insight | Project Southern Africa

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

Visual impairment and blindness

Switzerland | Actively manage everyday life and work with visual impairments

Biogas plant in Benin

Centre Bouge in Sékou | Construction and installation of a biogas plant to produce biogas and biofertilizer in the training center

Renovation of health centers in Benin

Final Report 2023 | Rehabilitation of health centers Benin

Implementation of Biodigester in Benin

Alliance Nature

Insight | Eye care

Southern Africa Project | For improved eye health care in Eswatini

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.

Trees-Forests-Water-Food-Life

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

Healthcare facility in Tanzania

Combating maternal and child mortality | Donation for the purchase of the hospital building

Healing girls and women with obstetric fistulas

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

Diabetes and high blood pressure treatment

Zimbabwe | Awareness raising for patients with diabetes and hypertension