Our help for
self-help
self-help
Sustainable aid
In the digital age the world has become a village. The people are closer than ever. Real development assistance is development cooperation. The support provided by industrialized countries to development countries must not solely be on a financial level but also needs to include a cultural exchange and be a help for self-help.
Principle of partnership
The lives of suffering people in development countries are shaped by extreme poverty, by hunger and disease, by illiteracy, unemployment and servitude. Millions of children cannot go to school because they have to help at home. Millions of street children survive by begging and stealing. Children's Care Emmaus encourages these people to improve their bad circumstances themselves in all areas of life. It is at their side with advice and financial resources. Our help for self-help is built on the principle of partnership: We closely cooperate with our partners in Switzerland and the Third World. Both here and there, authorities, relief organizations, target groups and local population are mobilised to commit themselves according to their possibilities. The lead and execution of the projects are left in the hands of locals as they best know the conditions on site.
Sustainable aid
Our concrete aid is not a drop in the ocean, it offers to many people a new and dignified life. The handicapped or unemployed man, the widow who turns to prostitution to feed her children, the girl in the orphanage or the urchin who survives by stealing: Our support built on partnership offers them a true chance.
| CHF 1.65 per day | is required to care for and educate a needy child. |
| CHF 150.– | is the cost of a sewing machine that a mother or adult daughter can use to earn a living. |
| CHF 300.– bis 500.– | is the price of a small or large dairy cow that keeps a family busy and provide it a small and regular income. |
| CHF 300.– bis 2500.– | is the amount required by a family to repair its hut if it has been damaged or destroyed by fire or storm or to replace it with a weatherproof dwelling house (the cost varies as the state does not always provide assistance). |
| CHF 500.– | is the cost of a shop offering healthy food for a widow or a handicapped person. |
| CHF 2000.– bis 4000.– | is the amount needed to build a bore-well to irrigate the land used by several families so that they can also grow crops during the dry season. |
| CHF 5000.– bis 8000.– | is what it takes to build a classroom which is essential to allow many rural children a decent education. |
Where we could help
Only thanks to the admirable commitment of volunteers, sponsors and donors we have been able, besides the child sponsorships, to support innumerable projects in Asia, Africa and South America since 1971.
leaky straw roofs
agricultural day laborers and often unemployed. We give them a dairy cow with calf
umbrella for her market stall
