COMACO trains small-scale farmers in Zambia in sustainable agriculture. This enables the farmers not only to secure their yields on their fields, but to increase them sustainably. They use fewer chemicals for fertilizing and clear less forest for new farmland. This protects soils and forests - also for future generations.
Ricarda Müller
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Edulution got off to a successful start in South Africa. In 2023, in 28 learning centers over 8000 learners are using the learning software.
Help for pregnant women in Kenya is now available digitally. Thanks to modern communication technology, women receive support anytime and anywhere. Specialists provide advice regarding all aspects of pregnancy and newborns. This saves them exhausting journeys, hours of queuing and high treatment costs.
Edulution supplements the overburdened state school systems in Zambia and South Africa with so-called learning centres. There the children can learn after the regular lessons – basic knowledge in mathematics and English is taught by means of tablets and special learning software. Each child is given its own account. This way they can learn individually, actively and at their own pace. The children are attended to by specially trained coaches.
Tel143 is currently training new volunteers as contact persons for the helpline. Their commitment is more in demand than ever.
The Paradiesgässli offers help for children and young people from families affected by addiction and poverty in Lucerne. They receive support with their homework, learn how to handle money responsibly and the routines of everyday life. This increases their chances of later being able to live their lifes independently and financially.
The textile industry in Bangladesh employs over four million workers and was largely cash-based until a few years ago. Workers need access to formal financial services such as savings, insurance and credit products. This will enable them to cushion financial shocks and achieve savings goals. In addition, interested women receive training in entrepreneurship.
Success in 2022 in numbers - Edulution successfully supports thousands of children and young people in Zambia, South Africa and Namibia.
Young women and men, including especially dropouts, become fit for the labor market in Tanzania thanks to practice-oriented short training courses.
The Happel Foundation supports the SARATHI project of Swisscontact in Bangladesh. The aim of the commitment is to enable access to financial services for workers in the garment industry and thus improve their financial health.
In Tanzania, young men and women who dropped out of school receive short, practical training courses. Currently, they learn the necessary skills and competencies in eleven occupational fields - such as electrical installation, bakery, cosmetics or beekeeping. This makes it easier for them to find suitably paid employment on the labor market and permanently improve their living conditions. In addition, interactive learning units enable self-study via cell phone at the participants' own learning pace.
The partnership between the Happel Foundation Switzerland and HarvestPlus focuses on meals for school children in India.
The Happel Foundation supported the non-profit foundation pro pallium in establishing the ambulant children's hospice service for families with seriously ill children also in Central Switzerland.
The Happel Foundation covered the costs for the Fachstelle Schuldenberatung (Center for Debt Counseling) in Lucerne to move to its central premises, where it can provide services for those people in need.