A Message from the Board

At the end of June we closed down our “Fondation Partnerships in Health” which had its offices in Céligny near Geneva.

We began to create and run projects in the mid nineties as a member of the worldwide Project HOPE organization. In 2005 we became a fully independent Swiss foundation.  Our main objective always was “to help others to help themselves” in the health care field. Capacity building and know-how transfer were key elements of our activities.

We ran our programs in a businesslike manner, under strict financial controls and professional audits and as a certified foundation, but also with our passion for making lasting health improvements in our partner countries. We were striving for top level content and innovative ideas, working with local and international partners to achieve best performance.

In the past ten years we ran programs for about CHF 22,5 million. Since our Foundation was not equipped with a proper foundation capital, all the funding of our activities had to be through fund raising and sponsoring contributions from public, corporate and private sources with a small staff in our Céligny office.

In the past few years, the environment of our activities has gone through many changes. Sponsors in general wish to see their contributions spent in the field only and no longer here in Switzerland. Therefore, our closing down has been planned for quite some time in order to transfer a maximum of our knowledge to local NGOs we had helped to build up in the main countries we have been active in. We have achieved this target, and our work of the past 15 years is now being carried on where it is most needed.

We are proud of our people and the great work they have been doing, full of personal devotion and passion. Our results and achievements are highly respected by those concerned, the people we have been able to help to gain a better life, the many young people who grew into a professional job in our organization and finally all the health care experts and authorities that worked with us on our many projects.

It is now the moment to say a big thank you to all who have carried our flag and to wish all those who will go on working and carrying our spirit into the future all the best of luck and success.

Friedrich Sauerländer
Chairman

Anthony Travis
Treasurer

Bettina Schwethelm
Executive Director

For further information contact: Bettina Schwethelm bschwethelm@yahoo.com