HEKS/EPER is making a difference in the area of «Social inclusion»
Ever more people are being excluded because of their social background, ethnicity, age, gender or religion. Integrating people with a migration background can be compounded, for example, by the lack of the requisite language proficiency, ignorance of Switzerland's cultural specificities or by disadvantages on the job market. HEKS/EPER works actively to ensure that the affected people have access to education, work, government programmes and services. But integration is incumbent on society as a whole, which calls for openness as well as regulatory structures that ensure the right of social participation for all. This implies that everyone has the same rights and opportunities and that features such as gender, age, social background, nationality or religion do not give rise to discrimination.
HEKS Linguadukt – Intercultural Interpreter Services
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).
Project Burgdorf and Thun
HEKS Job-Network helps unemployed people to reintegrate into the job market.
HEKS Wohnen Aargau offers assisted living for the socially disadvantaged.
«HEKS/EPER MosaiQ» advises and accompanies qualified migrants in obtaining recognition of their foreign diplomas so that they can bring their professional potential to the Swiss job market.
AltuM – Age and Migration
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.
Project Aargau and Solothurn
HEKS/EPER New Gardens Aargau/Solothurn
HEKS/EPER New Gardens leases allotment gardens at different locations in the cantons of Aargau and Solothurn and works them together with refugee women.
HEKS/EPER Visit Aargau is a job creation scheme that offers new prospects to the long term unemployed.
Project Basel-Stadt and Baselland
MEL – Parent Work and Adult Education with Migrants
MEL offers an acknowledged training course for intercultural interpreters and training courses in cross-cultural mediation.
Brückenbauerinnen Gundeli
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.
Project in Baselland und Basel-Stadt
HEKS AltuM – Age and Migration in Basel (both sides)
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.
Project Basel-Stadt and Baselland
HEKS-Wohnen for both Cantons of Basel
HEKS-Wohnen for both Cantons of Basel advocates for people that are unable to cope with their lives in general.
Project Basel-Stadt and Baselland
Vitalina provides important health information to foreign language speakers who are parents of pre-school children in the Basel region.
Deutsch Intensiv – Français Intensif
«Deutsch intensive - Français Intensif» provides tailor-made language courses for recognized refugees in order to enhance their social and professional integration.
«HEKS/EPER InfoSchweiz» supports temporarily admitted persons and recognized refugees through a variety of social integration courses and information programmes.
«MosaiQ Berne» advises and accompanies qualified migrants in obtaining recognition of their foreign diplomas so that they can bring their professional potential to the Swiss job market.
HEKS Visio provides support for the long-term unemployed from the Burgdorf region.
HEKS/EPER leases allotment garden at different locations in the Canton of Berne and works them together with migrants.
Project Eastern Switzerland
HEKS/EPER AltuM – Age and Migration Eastern Switzerland
«HEKS/EPER AltuM Eastern Switzerland» enhances the health and social inclusion of senior migrants 55 years and over through counselling and leisure activities.
Project Eastern Switzerland
New Gardens Eastern Switzerland
«HEKS/EPER New Gardens» leases allotment gardens at various locations in Eastern Switzerland and works them together with migrants.
Project Eastern Switzerland
HEKS/EPER Visit Eastern Switzerland
«HEKS/EPER Visit Eastern Switzerland» places long term unemployed people in meaningful part-time positions, thereby fostering their social inclusion.
