HEKS/EPER makes a difference

HEKS/EPER Visit Aargau is a job creation scheme that offers new prospects to the long term unemployed.

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

MEL offers an acknowledged training course for intercultural interpreters and training courses in cross-cultural mediation.

The HEKS/EPER Age and Migration project informs, guides and integrates older people with a migration background in the Canton of Vaud.

The HEKS/EPER Permanences volantes programme aims to improve the living conditions of migrants in precarious situations in Geneva, especially as regards their health.

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 HEKS/EPER Espace Parents project  provides a place of encounter, support and guidance for parents in Neuchâtel.

«HEKS/EPER New Gardens» leases allotment gardens at various locations in Cantons of Zurich and Schaffhausen and works them together with migrants.

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.

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 German integration courses run by HEKS in-fra are tailored to the varying needs of the participants as regards course contents and methodology.

«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.