Foundations for People with Disabilities in Switzerland
Many people with disabilities face additional challenges in everyday life, experience discrimination, and experience limited participation in society. Projects and foundations for disabled people in Switzerland work for inclusion and the removal of barriers and support people with disabilities on a practical, financial and social level.
Foundations for People with Disabilities in Switzerland
According to estimates, 1,7 million people in Switzerland live with physical, mental or intellectual impairments. Nearly 600’000 of them (29 percent) are considered severely impaired, unable to live independently at home due to their disability. In addition to the limitations imposed by their impairment, people with disabilities face prejudice, are often marginalized, and face language, social, functional, and spatial barriers.
Foundations in Switzerland that support people with disabilities and facilitate projects in the field of disability assistance help to break down these barriers by providing support and assistance and working towards an inclusive, barrier-free society. Together with foundations for health and foundations for social affairs, foundations for people with disabilities combat social inequality and strengthen social justice.
The Zurich Disabled Transportation Foundation for example, enables wheelchair users and all people with restricted mobility to extend their freedom of movement. This not only reduces practical and financial barriers, but also improves social participation.
Support for Families with Disabled Children through Swiss Foundations
The early support and inclusion of children with disabilities strengthens self-confidence and increases the chance of later employment and a life as self-determined as possible. Furthermore, the contact of disabled and non-disabled children contributes to a better visibility and acceptance in society and reduces fears of contact or prevents them from developing. Special Foundations for children with disabilities and their families are also an important point of contact for parents and relatives if a disability is diagnosed or suspected in babies and young children. Disabilities resulting from an accident or illness later in childhood also represent a major disruption to family life, and it is important to provide the best possible support to children and their families during this time. Such projects and facilities are supported, for example, by the Foundation for the Disabled Child based in Zurich.
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Together for an Inclusive Society: Project Owners and Foundations for Severely Disabled People
As Switzerland’s largest digital philanthropy community, StiftungSchweiz brings together grant giving foundations foundations, operating foundations, project owners, companies and private individuals who want to work together to effect social change and fight social injustice. The removal of barriers can take very different forms. For example, the Foundation for Legal Aid for the Disabled promotes free legal advice and legal assistance for disabled people to enforce their rights to equality. Discrimination against people with disabilities is still particularly prevalent in the insurance industry and in the workplace. The Basel Rotary Club Foundation for the Elderly and Disabled, on the other hand, supports therapy and care for people with disabilities and contributes to the costs of such measures, sponsors therapy and healing facilities and covers the wage costs of carers and other nursing staff.