How your parcel helps
Support in Switzerland
Post Office or Coop: your parcels help these people
As many as 743 000 people live in poverty in Switzerland. A single person living below the poverty line has to get by on CHF 2300 a month. A two-parent family with two children has less than CHF 4159 to live on.
The 2 x Christmas campaign provides aid for people in Switzerland directly. The basic necessities collected are distributed through the various SRC cantonal associations throughout the country.
Insights into national aid programmes
Planet 13 and 2 x Christmas
Planet 13 is one of the institutions supported by the 2 x Christmas campaign. This internet café provides people from various social and cultural backgrounds with a place to meet up and find support.
The café’s customers have access to the internet, can print and scan documents, receive help writing job applications or filling in forms, and can obtain legal advice on social welfare law.
Every year, the Basel-Stadt Red Cross donates parcels from the 2 x Christmas campaign to Planet 13. The goods are then distributed to people in need at the internet café, bringing some joy into their lives.
Support abroad
Your digital aid parcels
Thanks to donations to the 2 x Christmas campaign, support can be given to roughly 5390 people living in poverty in Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova. The beneficiaries live in precarious circumstances. The cold winter months make their already difficult circumstances even more severe.
The economies of these four countries are struggling due to high unemployment rates and spiralling living expenses, such as for food, medicines and heating fuel. This inevitably aggravates the situation of people living at or below the poverty line.
Vouchers and cash are used to help these people purchase warm winter clothing, heating fuel, food and even urgently needed medication. This significantly eases the strain on the family budget and helps them cope through the winter.
Armenia
The Red Cross is providing support through the winter for elderly people living in poverty, in the form of food and hygiene articles. Red Cross volunteers deliver the parcels once a month, as the beneficiaries often have reduced mobility.
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Single parents, large families, elderly and disabled people receive cash assistance. The beneficiaries themselves get to decide which of their basic needs they want to cover with it.
Kyrgyzstan
Here too, single parents, large families, elderly and disabled people receive cash assistance. This financial support enables fast, customized assistance.
Moldova
Red Cross volunteers provide elderly and isolated people with vouchers that can be used to buy whatever they need in a selection of shops.
Insights into international aid programmes
Are you living in poverty?
The goods donated to the 2 x Christmas campaign are distributed through the cantonal associations.
If you need support or have any questions about distribution, please contact your local Red Cross cantonal association.
SRC in your region
The Swiss Red Cross is there for you, all over Switzerland including near you.
You can obtain further information and support services from your local office.
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