#WeArePhilanthropy – Our member´s stories of the Focus:Philanthropy photo contest – Part 3/3
With the campaign #EuropeTogether #WeArePhilanthropy, DAFNE will be spotlighting one inspiring story per day here until October 1st when three winners will be announced in celebration of the European Day of Foundations and Donors. We want to take this opportunity to share our member’s stories over the next weeks and thank everyone for their participation.
Here is the last chapter of inspiring stories:
Mobile schools in Afar Ehtopia – Medicor Foundation
The Afar people in North Eastern Ethiopia are living a nomadic life and follow with their cattle the food availability of the land. Children are moving with their parents. Medicor Foundation is supporting the Pestalozzi Child foundation in establishing a system of mobile schools that travel with the nomads where children can receive 3 years of primary education. The children are thought in their local language by trained teachers assistants out of their communities that travel with them. The picture shows a teacher assistance of the 3rdgrade with her teaching materials in a bag in front of the mobile school class. (Photocredit: Ricus Jacometti)Neighbourly health check – Swiss Re Foundation
Amos is a retired banker who returned to his home village to serve his neighborhood as a Community Health Worker (CHW). The work that CHWs do in solidarity with their communities is integral to the efforts of delivering effective frontline healthcare on a large scale, especially in remote areas. One of the greatest threats to resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of healthcare supply. Most primary healthcare facilities are understaffed, and staff are often inadequately trained and lightly monitored. In some remote areas, many can’t access professional care at all. The Swiss Re Foundation is helping Living Goods strengthen healthcare delivery in poor, rural areas of Kenya by recruiting and training CHWs who bring quality healthcare right to people’s doorsteps. The organisation provides simple supplies such as rapid malaria tests to save lives and provides training on basic healthcare and referrals in their own communities. (Photocredit: Christian Bobst Photography)The power of education – UBS Foundation for Social Issues and Education
Robel hasn’t always had a reason to smile. Not when he fled his native Eritrea; not when he struggled as a refugee in Sudan and Egypt; and not on the rubber boat crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Italy. But today Robel has got his smile back. He lives in Switzerland with his young family and works in the IT department of banking giant UBS after successfully graduating from Powercoders, a coding academy for refugees. Throughout Switzerland Powercoders offers three-months IT courses for refugees and supports them in finding an internship or a job. Their purpose is to both integrate refugees and migrants whilst also filling open job positions in the IT industry. Powercoders is being supported by the UBS Foundation for Social Issues and Education which has financed the launch of an IT learning center, the „Powerhouse“. (Photocredit: Valeriano Di Domenico)
Ready, set, go: draisine derby! – Christoph Merian Foundation
The annual draisine derby is a unique spectacle: Before you start, you need to design and create your very own draisine, which is basically a man-powered vehicle for the railways. Creativity, crafting skills and a lot of commitment are required. Because in the derby itself, speed is not the only thing that counts. Originality, teamwork and an overall convincing performance are also awarded. In 2020, the happening will take place for the fifth time on disused rails at Dreispitz in Basel. The Christoph Merian Stiftung (CMS) owns this area, which is developing from industrial into a new city district. The draisine derby, co-initiated by the Foundation, is promoting this transformation by bringing together residents and neighbours, cultural institutions, students from the neighbouring campus and a broad public. (Photocredit: Kathrin Schulthess)
Hearing care for my people, thanks to capacity building – Hear the World Foundation
Masozieis proud to being able to support people in need with hearing loss from her country. She is a team member of the project #HearMalawi supported by the Swiss Hear the World Foundation since 2011. The foundation provided funding, expertise and hearing aid technology to the project and helped building up local capacity: the first hearing care clinic of the country, a newborn hearing screening program, outreach programs to also care for people in need in rural areas, training of several local experts. Today, the project is run by a local management and local experts provide access to audiological care to people in need. (Photocredit: Silvio Gerber, Filmgerberei GmbH)
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