All Social projects crowdfunding projects from Switzerland

After all of us had stayed at home and this global crisis is over, this project aims to bring people back together. Our goal is to create a local network within urban neighborhoods, in which a social sharing of resources, skills and abilities is encouraged. 5 Favors is a local, social platform, which will facilitate these processes of exchange and contribute to the transparency of resources.

Fundraising for the Forderverein fur Kinder mit Seltenen Krankheiten (www.kmsk.ch). This foundation supports families that are affected by rare diseases by organizing heartwarming support and events. As part of the KMSK Swiss Challenge 2020, I aim to run at least 200km in one month (start on 11 May). For each completed km I will personally donate 1,- CHF to KMSK. Support KMSK by contributing to this effort. The raised funds go directly to KMSK.

OpenMindCenter is the house für Consciousness, Development and Culture in the heart of Zurich. It stands for the culture of change and is a place for co-creation and community, being and meeting for openminded people, young explorers and Cultural-Creatives. The heart of the house is a Co-Working space as a future-lab for Start-Ups and innovative Entrepreneurs, a big hall for regular events, and a City-Lounge with a Café as meeting place, with a little shop. More rooms in various sizes offer space for workshops, Coaching, Meditation, Yoga and other movement techniques. The investment-phase has started. We are focusing our engagement on a building we found in a central place in Zurich, where from April 2014 four floors will be available. The calculations for the rent will come in around end of June. We need a lot of financial resources and the Crowdfunding is just a start for it. To start the establishment of the company, pay a small salary to the leading team and as depot for the rent, we are looking for small and bigger donations and we will give you some goodies in exchange. Some of the team members have still some income from other jobs. All the raised money will be hold on an account at the Swiss Alternative Bank and will be set free as we need it.

One urban district, more than 70 different nations and many children. The Babel-district in Lucerne, Switzerland. Help us to introduce children who mostly belong to families with low social background into Aikido so we can show them how to find peaceful conflict resolutions and to strengthen their self-confidence! A big chance for the children - our future. A project with long-term effect! MERELY 3130 CHF (about 2500 €) ARE MISSING TO START!

This project consists in giving group of adolescents with type 1 (insulin-dependent), aged 14 to 17 years, from Switzerland and Quebec, activities to share together the management of their disease and discuss the challenges and solutions that can help them to become more autonomous in the daily management of their treatment. After a first edition managed by the HUG in 2011, the Association Genevoise des Diabétiques (Geneva Association of Diabetics) organises another meeting that will bring together, for two weeks in the summer of 2016, 24 adolescents. Switzerland and Canada sometimes have some differences in their approach of the treatment that have greatly enriched adolescents during 1st meeting. Participants also witnessed a real awareness on the feeling of not being alone in living with type 1 diabetes. The exchange will take place from 8 to 24 July 2016 and will bring together 12 young participants from each country, boys and girls as well as the 4 nurses and 4 adults who will be supervising the project. The teenagers from Quebec will spend the first week in Switzerland, met with their exchange partners and in turn will receive the Swiss during the second week under the same conditions. Thus, at the heart of families, they will have the opportunity to speak of diabetes, constraints and share tips with each other. Swiss families are planning a program of visits and activities to accommodate Quebec participants, and make them live in various group experiences meant to strengthen the management of their diabetes. Type 1 diabetes (also known as insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes) occurs when the pancreatic beta cells which normally produce insulin necessary to regulate blood sugar, are destroyed by the patient's immune system. Type 1 diabetes occurs most often in children and young adults but can affect people of any age. Type 1 diabetes is treated with daily insulin injections (with insulin pens or insulin pumps ). There is no way to prevent type 1 diabetes. The funding of this project must be completed before June 30, 2016. Several initiatives are planned to raise funds (see graph below) and we need to CHF 6’000 to fund an activity of two days in the mountains including a stay during the night in a cabin. This will allow them to learn how to manage their disease in height with a physical effort. Please talk about this project to your friends, families and acquaintances and don’t forget to visit our website and facebook page: http://diabetexchange2016.jimdo.com or www.facebook.com/diabxchange To see the report done by the RTS on the old edition, from the show “Ensemble”, July 12, 2015: http://www.rts.ch/emissions/ensemble/6833355-un-echange-entre-jeunes-diabetiques-de-geneve-au-quebec.html We are counting on your financial support to transform this project into an unforgettable experience !

Together with our network of Global Changemakers, we have created a set of Toolkits that have already been used by over 10.000 young people people all over the world. Up until now, these Toolkits only exist in English. We want to translate the tools in other languages so that more and more people can also use them. We will start with the Swiss languages in order to support young people who want to create real on the ground change, whether battling climate change, corruption or poverty.