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The Aladdin Foundation provides help to families with children who have a serious disease or disability. It provides parental relief at the children’s hospitals in Zurich and Lucerne and organizes vacation weeks for families.

The Associazione Ticinese Terza Età (ATTE) combats the social exclusion of elderly people and promotes social and inter-generational integration. ATTE is a charitable organization that relies primarily on volunteers.

The B360 education partnership enables intercontinental learning: European experts volunteer as teachers at African universities and African students complete internships in Switzerland. The Namibia University of Science and Technology, the University of Zambia, and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town are partners.

The Foundation for Blind and Visually Impaired Children runs the Zollikofen school for the blind. It provides education and support for blind and visually impaired kids and teens. Its goal is to ensure the best possible professional and social integration for these children.

The Check your Chance association helps young people with various offerings when entering the work force, thus promoting Switzerland as a center of knowledge and industry. Since the start of the project in 2010, more than 8,800 young people have already benefited from the offerings.

The Corelina Foundation helps to provide medical treatment and support for children with heart conditions. The families of the children affected are able to receive support from the foundation.

Hiki is a parents’ association that provides uncomplicated and targeted support and relief services for families with children living with brain injuries. It is a point of contact for parents, specialists, and members of the general public, providing information on brain injuries in childhood.

Dreischiibe helps to generate prospects for people with mental health problems. The association provides jobs and work placements in ten productive fields, where participants offer professional, market-oriented services.

The kanthari Foundation Switzerland helps people in all parts of the world. Together with the local population, it combines various projects, thus fighting youth unemployment in Nigeria, promoting agriculture in India, or strengthening children’s rights in Uganda, for instance.

The foundation is a sponsor of Children’s Hospital Zurich, one of Europe’s leading centers of pediatric and adolescent medicine. A group of 2,000 committed Children’s Hospital employees look after the well-being of around 100,000 young patients annually.

With various educational and participation offerings, the Swiss climate protection movement promotes the expansion of renewable energy, efficient energy use, and the reduction of greenhouse gases. The creative campaigns show how we can all actively reduce carbon dioxide.

Pro Juventute has been committed to the needs and rights of children and families in Switzerland for over 100 years. In Pro Juventute they have a counterpart who hears, sees, understands, supports, and stands up for them. Every year, more than 260,000 children and 100,000 parents benefit from important services.

Ronald McDonald House Charity Switzerland runs houses close to children’s hospitals, providing a temporary home for families with children in the hospital. These homes away from home enable families to remain close during the child’s time in the hospital.

The Brändi Foundation is a professional non-profit organization. It promotes and actively works towards the professional, social, and cultural integration of disabled people.

This foundation is the only private organization in Switzerland to support research for pediatric and youth cancer. The foundation finances selected research projects through donations or bequests.

The Youth Music Competition Foundation promotes new musical talent in Switzerland and offers talented young musicians the opportunity to prove themselves in front of an audience and renowned jurors. Every year, more than 1,500 young people take part in the competition.

The Swiss Red Cross works in the fields of health care, rescue, social integration, and disaster response. Many committed employees and volunteers devote themselves to relieving human suffering in Switzerland and abroad.

Töpferhaus in Aarau provides a place for people with mental health problems to find themselves again and shape their future. It is geared mainly towards young people. Töpferhaus provides clients with an opportunity to integrate both socially and professionally.

Tanne is a center of competence for the deafblind and people living with similar forms of multi-sensory impairment. It provides a daycare service for early years education, a flexible range of care services for young children, and internal or integrative special schooling.

Winter Relief Switzerland has been working hard to tackle poverty for over 80 years. It helps over 500 people in Geneva each year. With ad-hoc support services, Winter Relief Switzerland helps people in financial difficulty to get by.