All Social projects crowdfunding projects from Switzerland

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.

Planting the Future is a social project focused on increasing the living and educational standards of students and children in Paraguay. This project was started in 2012 by students of the SIM program (the Master in Strategy and International Management) at the University of St. Gallen as part of the SIMagination Challenge, and has been carried on by generations of SIM students since. This year we will again visit the foster home in Pedro Juan Caballero and bring educational supplies and energy. Furthermore, we will visit a school 45min from Asunción and help them to get self sustained. To achieve this we cooperate with them in establishing a jam production and selling the jam in the region. This additional income stream helps the students to develop an entrepreneurial spirit and at the same time solves a problem of local farmers, who are not able to sell most of their produced fruits on the local market. Furthermore we consult the school on the optimisation of existing products to increase the profitability and reach. This extra profit and knowledge will not only increase the funds of the school but will thereby also increase the living standards of the whole community. Remember the Ice bucket challenge? Well it was cold, but because it is already pretty cold here in St. Gallen anyway we decided to do something different. For every milestone we reach one of our team members will be covered with a bucket of sticky, liquid jelly. As incentive to support us we will jellify ourselves in the following order: 1. Mitch 300.- 2. Désirée 600. 3. Moritz 800.- 4. Nicolai 1000.- 5. Cosima 1200.- 6. Fabrizio 1400.- 7. Ying Ying 1500.- 8. Olga 1600.- For every milestone you will receive a video proving our commitment! Help the children and students in Paraguay, donate now and jellify us ;)

With your support, two African experts will have accessible accommodation and services at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) in Basel, Switzerland. We are looking for your financial support or/and alternative contribution in enabling 1) Sefakor's access to hotel and transportation by wheelchair from 27 June to 2 July in Basel, estimated cost of CHF 1500 and 2) Ambrose's access to keynote lectures, roundtable discussions and panel presentation in the form of CART (real time captioning services) at an estimated cost of CHF 7500. If we reach the first target of CHF 5000, we can support Sefakor's wheelchair accessible hotel and transportation costs as well as real-time captioning service for one and a half days of the conference for Ambrose. Actually, considering the fees, I would word it thus: If we reach our goal of CHF 10000, we will be able to support real-time captioning for all three days of the conference, wheelchair accessibility and possibly accommodations for the cultural program taking place in the evenings. You can join the barrier-free project with financial support for two experts and/or with an alternative contribution (i.e. offering accessible accommodation for Sefakor or offering your professional services/technological know-how to support captioning services for Ambrose).