Focus topic
Social integration - promoting an inclusive society
In Switzerland, too, we experience social inequality, which mainly manifests itself in a lack of inclusion or social participation of disadvantaged groups of people.
We are committed to ensuring that particularly vulnerable people can participate in society on an equal footing and have prospects for shaping their lives in a self-determined manner. We therefore support organisations that offer inclusion measures or improve quality of life for migrants, the long-term unemployed, people affected by violence, people with disabilities or those at risk of poverty to obtain their rights.
We also support organisations that make a socially meaningful and ecologically sustainable contribution to combating food waste by distributing food to the needy or recycling it.
fact
On the open labor market, people with impairments show significantly lower employment and higher unemployment than people without impairments. In 2019, 68% of people with impairments living in private households were employed, while another 4.5% were unemployed and looking for work. For people without disabilities, the corresponding proportions were 84% and 3%, and for "severely impaired" people with disabilities, 39% and 7.5%.
Civil Society Report on the Occasion of the First State Report Procedure before the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Bern, February 2022
Our Commitment
People living in poverty in Switzerland are really struggling with rising prices and have to make the most out of their limited resources.
Around 40 disabled people make the Brunegg Foundation their home, living in various forms of accommodation, depending on their needs.
Caring for terminally ill children pushes their families to the limits of what is possibly manageable.
The "Work Integration at Belimo" project is all about inclusion. People with cognitive impairments also want to work with those who are not dependent on support.
Our areas of action
Our activities are guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN).
SDG 10
Reduce inequalities
Reduce inequality within and between countries.
SDG 16
Health and well-being
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.