Inspired by the values of our co-founder, the Albert Koechlin Foundation, we too are committed to making the world a better place. We encourage our suppliers and customers to actively engage in social causes.
We are actively involved in charitable initiatives in Switzerland and worldwide. Our employees nominate projects close to their hearts each year and decide on the support through voting.
However, we are very aware that financial support alone is not enough to bring about real change. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to express our deep gratitude to the organizations we support. Their tireless efforts on the ground are what make the crucial difference.
hiki is a politically neutral, economically independent, and Switzerland-wide – with a focus on German-speaking Switzerland – parent organization. Since 1986, we have been supporting families with children and adolescents with brain injuries. We see ourselves as a point of contact for those affected, specialists, and the general public on the subject of brain injuries in childhood and raise awareness of their concerns and needs. We are committed to ensuring that children and adolescents with congenital or acquired brain injuries and their families find an equal place in our society.
We are a non-profit organization active throughout Switzerland with offices in Zurich and Lausanne. Since 1993, we have been bringing joy and variety to the lives of children and adolescents living with an illness or disability. For them, we bring the stars from the sky. We fulfill the child’s innermost wish and give the whole family varied excursions and carefree leisure activities. For children with an illness or disability, we bring a star from the sky.
Pro Mente Sana is an independent organization for mental health in Switzerland. It is a point of contact for people with mental impairments, their relatives, and professionals. You can find out more about the foundation, our work, and the more than 45-year history here.
MSF helps people in need, those affected by natural or man-made disasters, and armed conflicts, without discrimination and regardless of their ethnic origin, religious, philosophical, or political beliefs. In the name of universal medical ethics and the right to humanitarian aid, MSF works neutrally and impartially and demands complete and unhindered freedom in the exercise of its activities.
The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) is the oldest and largest humanitarian organization in Switzerland. In the areas of health, integration, and rescue, we are committed to helping people in need. We are represented throughout Switzerland and active in around 30 countries.
We are committed to a better life for children and adolescents in the remote provinces of West Papua, Indonesia. We believe that every child in this world has a right to education, health, and thus prospects in life. Child Aid Papua is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland.
The Swiss children’s aid organization Kovive is an NGO based in Lucerne. Since 1954, Kovive has been committed to socially disadvantaged and poverty-stricken children and adolescents in Switzerland. Thanks to the two low-threshold Kovive support services (individual care solutions and camps with diverse support impulses), these children and their families receive support, assistance, relief, and sustainable future prospects.
Caritas Lucerne advises, supports, and accompanies people so that they can shape their lives on their own responsibility. As a non-profit organization, it uses its expertise to help people in difficult life situations, is committed to fighting poverty, and promotes social and professional integration in Central Switzerland.
The SSBL has been caring for people with severe disabilities for over 50 years. A disability is severe when an independent life or integration in sheltered workshops is no longer possible due to the restrictions. The SSBL offers these people a place to live. They can live, work, and use various leisure activities at the SSBL.
The devastating earthquake of February 6th has plunged the people on the Turkish-Syrian border into even greater misery. The situation is particularly precarious in Syria, which is in a continuing humanitarian crisis after almost twelve years of conflict. HEKS reacted quickly. Just a few hours after the earthquake, local partner organizations organized accommodation and emergency aid for thousands of families. HEKS will also support the population in the longer term with the reconstruction of infrastructure and the economy.
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a private organization with an international focus. The organization consists of doctors and nurses, but also representatives of numerous other professional groups such as logisticians, administrators, finance and human resources managers, or supply chain managers are active in the missions. All solemnly commit themselves to the principles of the organization.
We are committed to a better life for children and adolescents in the remote provinces of West Papua, Indonesia. We believe that every child in this world has a right to education, health, and thus prospects in life. Child Aid Papua is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland.
We support Swiss asylum accommodations in providing even the smallest children with a protected place where they can simply be children again. In child-friendly rooms, refugee children can recover from their often traumatic experiences through regular learning and play activities and continue to develop healthily.
We are a non-profit organization active throughout Switzerland with offices in Zurich and Lausanne. Since 1993, we have been bringing joy and variety to the lives of children and adolescents living with an illness or disability. For them, we bring the stars from the sky.
Mistreatment, neglect, and sexual exploitation of children are not figments of the imagination, but daily reality. The «Kinder & Gewalt» foundation, founded in 1992, makes a contribution to the protection of children and adolescents throughout Switzerland by promoting and financially supporting violence prevention projects.
A life without hunger is a human right. Nevertheless, up to 811 million people worldwide have to go hungry. The vision of Welthungerhilfe is a world in which all people can live a self-determined life in dignity and justice, free from hunger and poverty. To this end, the organization works in 35 countries and hundreds of projects with sustainable solutions.
The need and despair are immeasurable. The SRC is doing everything possible to alleviate the suffering of those affected. An emergency aid team is deployed in Ukraine. Logistics experts support the coordinated assistance of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in the neighboring countries.
We are committed to a better life for children and adolescents in the remote provinces of West Papua, Indonesia. We believe that every child in this world has a right to education, health, and thus prospects in life.
For 30 years now, we have been actively committed to the climate by planting trees and protecting forests worldwide. We have already been able to plant over 14 million trees and relieve the atmosphere of harmful CO2. Every tree filters the greenhouse gas CO2 from the atmosphere. We use this for sustainable climate protection that combines the involvement of local communities and effective nature conservation.
The Frauenhaus Luzern is aimed at physically, psychologically, and sexually abused women and their children, as well as women who are threatened or strongly controlled by their partner or family members. It offers protection, accommodation, and advice and serves as an intermediate station for those affected to calm down and plan the next steps.
HelloWelcome is a meeting place for refugees, migrants, and locals at Kauffmannweg 9 (behind the Hotel Astoria) in Lucerne. Come by, meet people from different cultures. There is coffee, tea, and drinks at cost price, information on offers in the refugee and asylum sector, events by and with refugees and locals.
Pro Mente Sana is an independent organization for mental health in Switzerland. It is a point of contact for people with mental impairments, their relatives, and professionals.
Doctors Without Borders provides medical assistance in countries where people’s survival is threatened by conflicts, epidemics, or natural disasters. Depending on the need, we provide basic medicine or emergency surgical assistance, fight epidemics, conduct vaccination campaigns, operate nutrition centers, focus on mother-child care, offer psychological help, or train local staff.
Brot für alle works with international NGOs to publicize problematic working conditions at IT brand companies worldwide and to put pressure on the brand companies and their suppliers.
Worldwide, around 43 million people are blind. 295 million are affected by moderate to severe visual impairment. Most of those affected live in the poorest countries in the world. The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) is committed to the healing and prevention of poverty-related blindness in Africa and Asia.
Professional artists give children in the hospital a laugh. They are commissioned and trained by the Theodora Foundation according to strict guidelines for working in the hospital and in specialized institutions. The intensive basic training is continuously supplemented with mandatory further training.
Even before the Corona crisis, there were people in Switzerland who could barely afford the bare essentials. The current crisis has further exacerbated this situation. The organization “Tischlein deck dich” distributes food to people in need, which is still perfect, but should nevertheless be destroyed by the sales shops, restaurants, etc.
The Kirchliche Gassenarbeit Luzern association helps people affected by addiction and poverty from all over Central Switzerland. The professional services offered include basic medical care, healthy nutrition, and individual life management assistance.
When poverty blinds: Worldwide, around 36 million people are blind and 217 million are visually impaired. Most of those affected live in the poorest countries in the world. The Swiss Red Cross is committed to the healing and prevention of poverty-related blindness in Africa and Asia.
UNICEF is deployed wherever children are in need – before, during, and after the crisis. UNICEF delivers vital relief supplies, ensures the protection of children, and works to ensure that they have a future.
Millions of children and young people in underdeveloped regions have no opportunity to attend a good primary school or learn professional skills. CO-OPERAID is committed to ensuring that such children have the opportunity to learn, discover their own abilities, and develop.
