After celebrating its 50th anniversary in Switzerland last year, now it is the turn of FAIRMED’s local office in Chennai, India: 50 years ago FAIRMED – then under the name of Leprosy Relief Emmaus-Switzerland – started its first activities in India. On 30th August our local office celebrated 50 years of services in the fight against leprosy and the extension of FAIRMED’s activities in order to help people affected by poverty-related diseases. We thank our local collaborators for all the years of intensive work in order to provide health to the poorest.
Improvement of health in the Centralafrican Republic, Tsunami projects in Sri Lanka and FAIRMED-sponsorship programmes
– these are the main topics in the current issue of the FAIRMED periodical.
Read on in
German or French
The new annual report of FAIRMED is published. A big thank you to all our donors who have made ort activites possible in the last year. Here you can find the annual report in German and French as well as the financial statement for downloading.
By buying a key protection from keymail you can donate at the same time CHF 14 to FAIRMED and you receive back your lost keys. Order here in German or French.
A medical team helps FAIRMED in its fight against Buruli Ulcer in Cameroon. Read more in the article in Le Temps of 23rd January (French) or in the article in NZZ am Sonntag of 13th July (German).
Tara can go to school. Not at all obvious for a girl living in the slums of Mumbai. But with the help of FAIRMED's local partner organisation she will be first person in the family to be able to read and write.
To the tv programme in German or French
Project of the Month of September
We ensure that poor people have the opportunity to enjoy good health.
We concentrate our commitment on people who are too poor to exercise their right to good health themselves.
In our projects poor and sick people are treated, rehabilitated and re-integrated into society.
We support poor and sick people through targeted measures such as micro-loans, occupational training or educational courses, so that they can live an economically independent life.
We make it possible for children affected by poverty related diseases to have access to schooling, thus breaking the vicious circle of poverty and illness.
We provide poor people with access to health care, by supporting health services with medicines, building up infrastructure and further training of health staff.
We combat the stigma which is attached to leprosy and other diseases of poverty.
We work for equal rights, by supporting patients’ organisations and self-help groups.
By training and explanation we promote health awareness among the populations affected.
By means of basic and further training we develop expert knowledge in the project countries. In this work we deliberately use and encourage local experts and partners.
We support research which directly benefits those affected.
We also create a voice in Switzerland for poor and sick people from countries in the South.
Read the entire Vision Statement in pdf format (104KB)