The goal of OneDollarGlasses' activities is to provide people in India with continuous basic optical care and to enable them to purchase high-quality and individually fitted eyeglasses. Interested people can participate in a self-developed training as an optician.
Ricarda Müller
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Helvetas' InELAM project further develops the successful ELAM project (2017-2020). It promotes the establishment of small businesses in Nepal with local resources and on the basis of developed value chains and market analyses. In this way, the potential of returnees and remittances from emigrated workers can also be used optimally and jobs can be created in the home country.
ELAM successfully supported the establishment of small businesses in Nepal in 2017-2020. The beneficiaries were not only able to significantly increase their own income and free themselves from poverty. They also created additional jobs and thus permanently improved the situation on the domestic labor market.
The Happel Foundation supported Tel143 Zentralschweiz - Die Dargebotene Hand in expanding its services during the Corona pandemic. This enabled them to offer valuable support to more desperate people in the region through conversations.
The re-entry into the job market can be very difficult, especially after a long break. In Central Switzerland the Happel Foundation supports people in their return to work. To this end, it works together with institutions that provide intensive support to those people. The common goal is to get them out of the social welfare system in the long term through permanent employment.
The project Skills 4 Employment S4E provides young people in Myanmar with qualified vocational training. This gives them the necessary professional, entrepreneurial and personal skills to subsequently find permanent work or become self-employed. Currently, the S4E project successfully offers training in the following areas: masonry, motorcycle repair, hair dresser and tailoring.
The Happel Foundation regularly supports Wärchbrogg in modernizing its workshop. This enables people with mental disabilities to carry out contract work in various areas, gain experience in the world of work and build up career prospects.
Small farmers in the Karnali region of Nepal cultivate their fields under difficult climatic conditions. The sale of walnut oil opens a way out of poverty for them. Thanks to specialized machinery, the oil can be produced and sold much more efficiently. The additional income significantly increases the quality of life of the small farmers and their families.
MIGIP is a project by Swisscontact. The aim is to increase productivity in agriculture through the use of innovative technologies. The project focuses on soil treatment, harvesting and storage. Required are approaches that farmers can afford and that allow them to increase their yields and produce sustainably in the longer term. This will give Cambodia’s farmers new employment and income opportunities, enabling them to lift themselves out of poverty permanently.
Also in Switzerland many people live in poverty and have debt. And once affected, it is difficult to get out of this situation. It is therefore particularly important to avoid debt in good time or to reduce it again quickly. A great tool for this is the app BudgetCH from the Dachverband Budgetberatung Schweiz. It can be used to control the spending more easily and to create a clearly arranged budget. BudgetCH has been actively used for years and has become an important tool for budgeting in private households.