HEKS/EPER makes a difference

Linguadukt serves as a language bridge between foreign-language speaking people and qualified staff from the health, social and education sectors to surmount language and cultural barriers and to elevate participation chances of migrants in general and to also lower costs (e.g. in the health sector).

HEKS KICK is a project for job seeking youths (16 to 20 years of age) and young adults (up to 25 years of age) from the regions of Oberaargau and Emmental.

There is great hardship in the refugee camps in Lebanon. HEKS/EPER is providing five million francs in emergency aid for Syrian refugees and host families.

«HEKS-Visit» offers welfare recipients a regular, but unpaid part-time employment within social welfare.

As a pilot project for outreach work with parents, «Brückenbauerinnen Gundeli» supports and accompanies migrants with pre-school and school-age children in their role as fathers and mothers.

The HEKS/EPER «AltuM» Project assists older migrants 55 years and over. Through preventive action, it prepares them for potential health problems and difficulties in old age.

The Legal Aid Office advises asylum seekers and temporarily admitted persons in the Canton of Aargau on matters regarding asylum and the law on foreign nationals.

Lawyers help poverty-stricken as well as undocumented people (Sans-Papiers) in the Canton of Aargau to understand legal issues, and guide them toward possibilities for self-help.

HEKS Wohnen Aargau offers assisted living for the socially disadvantaged.

The Legal Advice Office advises asylum seekers and temporarily admitted persons in the Canton of Solothurn on matters regarding asylum and the law on foreign nationals.

The Legal Aid Office advises asylum seekers and temporarily admitted persons from the Basel region on aspects of the law on asylum and foreign nationals.

HEKS/EPER New Gardens leases allotment gardens at different locations in the cantons of Aargau and Solothurn and works them together with refugee women.

The HEKS/EPER AltuM Project supports and assists older migrants 55 years and over. Preventive action is taken to prepare them for potential health problems in old age.

HEKS/EPER supports some 55 000 people in rural Ethiopia in gaining access to drinking water and land and in protecting against drought and flooding.

Poverty and violence are widespread in the DRC. HEKS/EPER is enhancing the social and economic conditions of rural communities in North Kivu Province.

Millions of people live in extreme poverty in Bangladesh. HEKS/EPER supports the social and economic integration of marginalized minorities.

The project enables foreign language-speaking parents in the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Baselland to prepare their children for kindergarten and school.

«HEKS/EPER Visit Eastern Switzerland» places long term unemployed people in meaningful part-time positions, thereby fostering their social inclusion.