Company
ASSURA
> www.assura.chWith over 400,000 clients, is Assura amongst the ten largest insurance companies in Switzerland. Assura participated in Tdh’s Children’s Rights Day action on November 20th for street children by sponsoring the production of the caps in 2010. And so the 6,000 youngsters who volunteered to sell various articles or to do odd jobs that day to raise people’s awareness of street children’s conditions, were wearing the caps in the colors of Tdh, giving high visibility to this big national event.
BCV
> www.bcv.chThe Bank of the Canton of Vaud and Terre des hommes cooperate in supporting children at a national and international level. In the context of Citizen’s Day, the staff of the BCV of nearly 10 branch offices in malls joint forces to offer bags of rice for a symbolic prize. The raised money went towards our project for nutrition in Haiti and towards the program for Specialized Health Treatment here in Switzerland.
In 2010, within the framework of the 50th birthday of Tdh, the BCV was the principal sponsor of a great Festival of Flon in Lausanne. The BCV also supports every year the Orange sale by offering vitamins to each one of the collaborators.
Bucher AG Langenthal, Motorex-Schmiertechnik
> www.motorex.comThe Swiss raw-oil processing company, Bucher AG Langenthal Motorex-Schmiertechnik, founded in 1917, supports Tdh through various actions. Staff members are encouraged to occasionally cook lunches for their department colleagues, the proceedings of which are then sent to Terre des hommes. Instead of receiving the usual presents at the end of the year, customers and partners are informed that Motorex is donating a sum to Tdh. Motorex also generously co-sponsored our advertisement prize Child Guardian 2007.
C&A
> www.c-et-a.chSince 2005, the well-known department store chain C&A employs a corporate responsibility programme which includes a partnership with Terre des hommes. Not only did C&A contribute to our Family Day in May 2004, but it also co-sponsors our children’s home La Maison in Massongex/Valais as well as giving financial aid for our school reintegration programme in Bangladesh.
Citibank (Switzerland) AG
> www.citi.comThe Citi Bank in Zurich has been participating since 2007 in various activities organized by the Terre des homes for child relief. That year the Bank sponsored a swimming contest and the staff sold portions of risotto in favor of the Terre des hommes’ projects for nutrition. Before Mothers’ Day, members of the staff sold heart-shaped gingerbread biscuits for the benefit of mothers and their children all over the world.
In 2011, the Citibank in Zurich and in Geneva supported the emergency action of Tdh in the Horn of Africa by selling rice and teas bags within the framework of their Day citizen.
Contex
> www.contex-ag.chMainly active in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the company Contex has been carrying out garment and shoe collections and recycling since 1991. They run about 1,500 collection containers but also distribute collection bags to households in most of these cantons; part of these proceeds is donated to Terre des hommes – and this regularly for the past fifteen years!
Coop
> www.coop.chCoop is a long-standing partner of the traditional sale of oranges of Terre des hommes. This Swiss wholesaler is selling us the tasty and high-quality fruit for a special price. Moreover, each year, Coop supports this action by a gift and thus contributes to the success of the sale of oranges. Coop and Tdh collaborate regularly for other activities. Coop in particular sponsored during the three last years the Sponsored Walks. To celebrate the 50th orange sale, Coop decided to support generously Terre des hommes in 2012 as the main partner of this action. Interview of Barbara Irniger, Person in charge of the Public relations at Coop.
Cremo
> www.cremo.chWell known for its various milk products, but mostly for its small portions of coffee cream, Cremo is producing a series of 50 million lids with Terre des hommes motives in Autumn 2010 to commemorate Tdh’s 50th anniversary.
France Loisirs Suisse
> www.franceloisirs.chFrance Loisirs Suisse, founded in 1978, is the leading Club of books and cultural leisure in French-speaking Switzerland. Every year, France Loisirs Suisse distributed almost one million of books to its 100’000 members per Internet, sms, telephone, fax and mail.
During the last years, France Loisirs Suisse has regularly supported Terre des hommes by offering on several occasions a free inserting of sponsorship leaflet in the mail to their member network. This contribution helps Terre des hommes to reduce their administrative costs and to reach thousands of members of France Loisirs Suisse to the cause of children.
ISS Facility
> www.ch.issworld.comISS (Integrated Service Solutions) is one of the world’s largest commercial providers of Facility Services with several ten thousand employees working in 32 subsidiaries across Switzerland.
in 2010, ISS decided to support the Tdh’s Journey to Life project, which is committed to saving children who are seriously ill and who cannot be cured in their home country.
ISS is sensitive to the situation of children in the world; therefore, ISS decides to stand in solidarity with them and became faithful partner of Terre des hommes.
LIDL
> www.lidl.chThe beginnings of Lidl go back to the 1930s, when the company was founded as a wholesale retailer in the branch of food assortment in the region of Swabia (South Germany). Today, Lidl is one of the top 10 German food retailers and active all over Europe, as an international group of companies with independent companies located in each country. Lidl Switzerland was founded in the end of 2003 and opened its first branch offices on 19 March 2009.
With a great number of Swiss and international products, Lidl Schweiz / Lidl Switzerland it ready to meet its consumers’ needs. In the future, Lidl is set to play an important role in the Swiss market.
Lidl is supporting financially Terre des hommes for its Action World Food Day, on October 16th in Switzerland. The day’s takings are used for the nutritional projects run by Tdh.
La Poste
> www.poste.chThe yellow giant can count on more than 55,000 men and women who look after the 15 million letters per day and 105 million parcels per year delivered to households and businesses. The Post made it possible for us to be present in 3,200 post offices all over Switzerland since 2007. They chose an original article suggested by Tdh, a box of 10 heart-shaped candles or reflective stars. In November 2011, customers of the Swiss Post can buy tea bags (black tea or Christmas tea) and around November 20th a flyer will be distributed at post counters for participation in a contest on child rights. Further information on Tdh action for the Children’s Rights Day.
Merck Serono
> www.merckserono.netWorld leader in biotechnology, the company dear to Ernesto Bertarelli, Merck Serono has associated itself with our mother-infant health project in Sri Lanka. They are supporting, in particular, the programme of health education for young pregnant women and post-natal care put in place in the Batticaloa and Ampara districts, an area with some 15,000 tsunami victims and ten times as many displaced persons. Apart from the onsite impact, there is a whole series of quality exchanges, uniting Merck Serono and Terre des hommes and involving skills as well as management.
Miele
> www.miele.chMiele, high quality household appliances’ and professional goods manufacturer, partners with Terre des hommes’ Sponsored walks throughout Switzerland in 2010. With this generous contribution, Milele supports health and nutrition projects implemented by Tdh in 14 countries of intervention.
Pharmacieplus
> www.pharmacieplus.chA partner of Terre des hommes since 2005, Pharmacieplus is a network of 88 independent drugstores in Switzerland. This group offers its customers “loyalty stamps” to use either to buy products at a lower price or to donate the stamps to a charity like Tdh. The money thus collected goes to our health care projects.
In addition to this, the Pharmacieplus network has joined us in the sale of oranges in 2007. Each year nearly 22,000 oranges are given to employees in the different pharmacies.
Ricola
> www.ricola.comEngagement 2012 Terre des hommes
Ricola is committed to economically, socially and ecologically sustainable practices. The heart of the family-owned and run Company, and the ingredient central to each of its products, is herbs. Cultivated in Swiss mountain areas without the use of herbicides and pesticides, herbs are what make all Ricola products unique. And it’s these herbs that have helped to establish Ricola as pioneers in herb cultivation and contributed to a wealth of knowledge of nature and agriculture, now held by the Company and its employees.
It’s this commitment to nature and farming practices that attracted Ricola to the Terre des hommes Homestead Garden project in Bangladesh, which it sponsors since 2012. Through this project, communities in Bangladesh are offered support in protecting their crops and optimizing nutrition.
Régie de la Couronne
> www.regie-couronne.chSince 2010, the Delarive Group have been financially committed over the years to Terre des homme’s work to help children. Their support has specifically helped the project Journey to Life, which contributes to the operations for many seriously ill children carried out in the university hospitals of Lausanne and Geneva.
The Crown Corporation, a company within the Delarive Group, is one of the market leaders in western Switzerland. They specialise particularly in brokerage, management and “Prestige” leasing, PPE administration, expertise and recovery, as well as tax and trust solutions. The company has developed a great skill in providing complete management of real estate.
Sara Lee Schweiz
> www.saralee.chSara Lee Switzerland, with its headquarters in Lupfig, Canton of Aargau, is the leading supplier of shoe care products, insoles and accessories under the label Bama. Sara Lee has been sponsoring Terre des hommes for 14 years with shoeshine sets for the event Street child for a Day which takes place each year on 20th November, the International Day of Children’s Rights. All over Switzerland, school children show their solidarity with the poorest children in street situation in the world and make people aware of their dramatic situation by doing typical street child jobs like cleaning shoes.
Suva
> www.suva.chA light in the night! This is what Terre des hommes tries to be for many children, and SUVA links onto this symbol by offering a luminous reflecting armband to all our co-workers in Switzerland, volunteers and salaried, children and adults, as a memento of the 50th anniversary of Tdh.
Teleperformance
> www.teleperformance.chSince 2009, Teleperformance Switzerland launched a Switzerland wide sale by telephone, to promote the Terre des hommes sale of oranges. With their valuable professional know-how, the staff of Teleperformance Switzerland sold oranges by phone to large and small companies in the German part of Switzerland. The profits from this action went to Terre des hommes’ projects in the field of health & nutrition and for special medical treatment.
Textura
> www.demarche.ch/textura.phpThe Textura Cooperative is a social training company which helps jobless people by recycling textiles and sorting second-hand garments and accessories for re-use. Terre des hommes and the Textura Cooperative have been collaborating for several years with the City of Lausanne to collect textiles and shoes throughout the district. Like this, a proportion of the profits made on selling these clothes accrues to Terre des hommes to help finance its projects for child relief.
Translation-Probst
> www.translation-probst.comTranslations for a Good Cause. Translation-Probst is a recognised translation agency that supports Terre des hommes with its professional translations. Whether the need is for brochures, websites or other documents, their qualified translators and linguists translate and proofread texts covering a wide range of subjects and in 25 languages. Translation-Probst also reward clients, that support Terre des hommes, with a discount of 5% on their translations.
Tupperware
> www.tupperware.chTupperware Switzerland SA is active on behalf of those children who should have the right to grow up with respect for their physical integrity. Having supported the Foundation’s projects in Madagascar since 2006, Tupperware effected a new partnership in 2007 with Tdh to support our program of Specialized Health Treatment in Switzerland.
Tupperware also sold small low-costs articles, in collaboration with its network of advisers. In 2010 a pretty bottle was sold for for the programmes of water and sanitation of Terre des hommes in India.
