HEKS/EPER makes a difference
HEKS/EPER Visit Aargau is a job creation scheme that offers new prospects to the long term unemployed.
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.
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.
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
The HEKS/EPER Age and Migration project informs, guides and integrates older people with a migration background in the Canton of Vaud.
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
The HEKS/EPER Permanences volantes programme aims to improve the living conditions of migrants in precarious situations in Geneva, especially as regards their health.
HEKS/EPER AltuM – Age and Migration Zurich
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.
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
The HEKS/EPER Espace Parents project provides a place of encounter, support and guidance for parents in Neuchâtel.
Project Zurich/Schaffhausen
HEKS/EPER New Gardens Zurich/Schaffhausen
«HEKS/EPER New Gardens» leases allotment gardens at various locations in Cantons of Zurich and Schaffhausen and works them together with migrants.
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
CROE, HEKS/EPER organizes for an observer to be present at hearings on the grounds for asylum, in order to ensure the fairness of the procedure.
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 Thurgau and St. Gallen
The German integration courses run by HEKS in-fra are tailored to the varying needs of the participants as regards course contents and methodology.
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.
HEKS Working Paper Series Access to Land
Assess & Enhance Land Tenure Security
Restricted and endangered access to land and resources has proven to be one of the major obstacles to the development of rural communities, which are in the centre of HEKS’ work. As a consequence of the urgent needs to secure access to land and HEKS’ longstanding experience in development work, a substantial number of HEKS projects have focused and are focussing on enhancing access to land and resources for rural communities.
Reformed Church promotes inclusion for the Roma
HEKS/EPER Bangladesh Country Programme 2017-2020
HEKS/EPER Survey on Volunteering
Commitment for fugitives in Switzerland
(Text available in German)
Report from Haiti (german)
Lunch for 3500 children
Bangladesh Country Programme
Millions of people live in extreme poverty in Bangladesh. HEKS/EPER supports the social and economic integration of marginalized minorities.