HEKS/EPER makes a difference
Rural development and empowerment of civil society
HEKS/EPER supports rural communities in improving food security and incomes, and in the building of a strong civil society.
Promoting local development
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.
Honduras Country Programme
Strengthening self-determination and autonomy
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.
Colombia Country Programme
Rural development and peacebuilding
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.
Hungary Country Programme
The Reformed Church advocates for the disadvantaged
HEKS/EPER supports the Reformed Church in Hungary in developing projects for Roma children and young people and in its work for the inclusion of otherwise abled people.
Legal Advice Office for Asylum Seekers Solothurn
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.
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.
«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.
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
InfoSuisse 50+ is a HEKS/EPER integration project for asylum seekers 50 years and over, who have recently arrived in Switzerland. It promotes the learning of practical French.
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
Service d’Aide Juridique aux Exilé.e.s (SAJE)
The «SAJE» is a HEKS/EPER legal advice office that informs, guides and defends asylum seekers during and after the conclusion of their asylum procedure.
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 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.
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
Through Chèques-emploi, HEKS/EPER promotes access to social rights for persons working in private households in the Canton of Vaud by improving their working conditions.
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.
HEKS/EPER Bangladesh Country Programme 2017-2020
Annual Meeting HEKS/EPER Open Forum 2017
Under the Open Forum project, HEKS/EPER is strengthening civil society organizations that are working for justice and peace by non-violent means.
HEKS/EPER Survey on Volunteering
Commitment for fugitives in Switzerland
(Text available in German)
Bangladesh Country Programme
Millions of people live in extreme poverty in Bangladesh. HEKS/EPER supports the social and economic integration of marginalized minorities.
