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.

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 is improving the food security and incomes of marginalized populations in the four southern States of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka.

In a region where life is marked by long-standing conflicts, HEKS/EPER is striving to promote peace based on justice and respect for human rights.

HEKS/EPER supports rural communities in improving food security and incomes, and in the building of a strong civil society.

HEKS/EPER supports the rural population in the Maradi and Zinder regions in building up profitable and sustainable agricultural production and in livestock farming.

HEKS/EPER supports people in Senegal in securing access to land, in sustainably managing natural resources and in tapping new sources of income.

In Cambodia, HEKS/EPER supports rural community development projects being run by local partner organizations.

HEKS/EPER assists rural communities in building up agricultural production chains so as to enable them to meet their basic needs with the additional income.

In southern Honduras, HEKS/EPER supports projects for the development of rural communities, the protection and defence of human rights, as well as disaster preparedness programmes.

HEKS/EPER is improving the social and economic situation of the rural population in the Republic of Moldova. Beneficiaries are farms, older people and communities.

HEKS/EPER supports the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in its work with children and adolescents, in community building and in supporting and caring for marginalized people.

Taking a holistic programme approach, HEKS/EPER fosters the social inclusion of the Roma population in Hungary, Kosovo, Romania and Serbia.

Together with its partner organizations REACH and «Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe», HEKS/EPER is supporting displaced people and local Kurdish smallholder families in improving their food security.

In Colombia, HEKS/EPER is contributing to a more just and peaceful society and to improving the livelihoods of internally displaced families and rural communities.

The AKEP project supports Turkish families in the Basel region. It revolves around integrative language classes and cultural education for children of Turkish origin.