Heilsarmee Schweiz
Stiftung Heilsarmee Schweiz
Bern, Switzerland
About
Heilsarmee Schweiz is a faith-based organisation based in Bern, Switzerland working on housing & homelessness, poverty & hunger, addiction +4 more.
Stiftung Heilsarmee Schweiz is the Swiss branch of The Salvation Army, a Christian church and social organisation. It runs emergency night shelters, long-term housing, addiction and elderly care, support for people in prostitution, loneliness and inclusion services, and second-hand shops in Switzerland. Internationally it funds community-level development and emergency relief projects in partner countries. Its work is financed mainly by donations, public funds, legacies and shop income. Its head office is in Bern and it operates in German- and French-speaking Switzerland. Around 49 congregations and roughly 30 social institutions are part of the organisation.
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Rahab
Human rights · Switzerland
Counselling, outreach and exit support for people in prostitution at sites in Zürich, Bern, Basel, Fribourg and La Broye.
Housing First Basel
Housing & Homelessness · Switzerland
Pilot project providing their own housing to people after long-term homelessness.
StandByMe
Community development
Regular giving programme that supports people on the margins of society over the long term.
Mikrokredit-Projekt Myanmar
Poverty & Hunger · Myanmar
Microcredit project improving the income and living conditions of around 3,000 families in Myanmar.
Le Passage Genf
Housing & Homelessness · Switzerland
Emergency night shelter for homeless people in Geneva, opened in 2021.
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DEZA, ACT Alliance, HEKS / Brot für alle, AllianceSud, Lotteriefonds des Kantons Bern, Stadt Zürich, solidariteau
