In over 30 countries on four continents, Swiss Church Aid HEKS/EPER supports development cooperation projects to combat poverty and injustice, and advocates for a life in dignity for all people. In parallel, HEKS/EPER also strives for systemic change through its development work – in Switzerland and worldwide. HEKS/EPER provides humanitarian assistance around the world for victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts and supports the diaconal work of churches in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Through its programmes in Switzerland, HEKS/EPER champions the rights and concerns of both people who are fleeing, and the socially underprivileged. HEKS/EPER projects promote help for self-help, are geared to the needs and resources of those concerned, and are implemented in concert with them. In its projects around the world and in its work of raising awareness around development and social policy topics in Switzerland, HEKS/EPER places the emphasis on the four priorities of climate justice, the right to land and food, flight and migration, and integration.

HOPES is a 12€ million project funded by the European Union’s Regional Trust Fund in response to the Syrian Crisis’ and implemented by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), British Council, Campus France and NuffŽic. It aims at signi‘cantly improving the situation of refugees of post-secondary age from Syria and young people in host communities aŽected by the high in’ux of refugees, by directly addressing their education needs.

Habitat for Humanity builds strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter. Housing poverty around the world is so widespread, that H4H needs to engage in many ways to solve housing problems. Together with its partners and volunteers, H4H provides new housing solutions and opportunities for people in need of decent shelter.

Heartland Alliance International (HAI) implements programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and in Chicago at the Marjorie Kovler Center.