Please help where your donation is most urgently needed.
Benefactor
Support the Terre des hommes activities for children’s rights by becoming a sympathizer.
Investor
Invest for a year in the future of children in need of protection.
Sponsor
Support the poorest children and their families on a long-term basis
Heritage
Give the gift of life
Terre des hommes helps disadvantaged and distressed children and their families with long-term, sustainable development projects in more than 30 countries.
85% of our annual receipts flow straight into direct aid, enabling us to help more than 1 million children, mothers and communities every year.
Tdh is under the supervision of the Federal Supervisory Board for Foundations and recognized by the Swiss Central Office for Charitable Organisations ZEWO.
Books and annnual balance comply with the demands of the Swiss GAAP FER 2007.
Our finances are checked and certified by external chartered accountants (Ernst & Young SA, Lausanne).
The operating processes of Tdh are continuously evaluated and that we have ISO 9001 certification.
Around 2,200 volunteers are active in 50 groups.
Donations can be deducted from cantonal and federal taxes, and that we automatically send you a confirmation of donation every February.
You can find the most important information on donations on the following website: www.zewo.ch
We campaign tirelessly throughout the world for the respect of children's rights based on the 1989 UN Convention of Childrenís Rights.
A patronage agreement with Terre des hommes offers various advantages:
our magazine, issued four times a year in French and German, keeps you informed on current projects and activities
you will not receive any other appeals for donations
you receive annual confirmation of your donation for your tax return
with fewer mailings, you help protect the environment and at the same time help us keep our administrative costs down
Child labour, child trafficking, child prostitution - the unbearable daily burden of millions of street children. With your investment in our child protection projects, you give them a decent basis for life with new perspectives.
As an investor you are involved in child protection for one year.
The daily life of the many children in need of protection offers little possibility of happiness.
Where children are threatened with abuse, exploitation and poverty, survival is the only thing that counts.
Terre des hommes campaigns actively and on the spot, so that children can break out of the spiral of misery and get back to a normal daily life without fear.
We offer street children an alternative to life on the streets.
We speak up for them, so that exploited and abused children can have a fresh chance and learn to trust themselves and others.
We open up new perspectives to the victims of trafficking and prostitution. And we are involved in seeing that children who would otherwise be imprisoned for petty offences receive an alternative punishment.
But above all, we give them back something essential: a smile and the possibility of being... just a child.
Your sponsorship is not intended for the benefit of an individual child but rather to help children, mothers and village communities in a specific and sustainable way.
With a sponsorship you support in the most effective way to care for children.
Terre des hommes guaranteed by long-term assistance and supports awareness of the children, their families and the social environment of children.
These are health and nutrition, and child in the foreground.
Every year we so against helping 1.5 million children, mothers and communities.
Terre des hommes will prevent any individual child sponsorship on principle to dependence and preference of individual children.
Give the gift of life with a bequest or a legacy Who are better suited to receive bequests or legacies than children?
Children who represent our future. Children who can only have the prospect of an independent life with our support. Children who have a basic right to a life of dignity.
The requirement for this is a will. Regrettably, six out of ten people in Switzerland die without having made one, even though it is so simple to set down your wishes in a will. Without a will and with no close family (children, spouses, or parents are usually covered by the legal reserve), after your death your property will go to distant relatives or the State!
There are two ways to support the Foundation of Terre des hommes – Child Relief
Legacy (share of inheritance) You appoint the Terre des hommes Foundation (alone or with other persons or institutions) as legatee. If there are heirs, they are entitled to a legally defined minimum share of the total inheritance (legal reserve).
Testamentary gift (bequest) You bequeath Terre des hommes a set sum of money or tangible assets. This can be in the form of property, works of art, securities, valuable furniture or life insurance and annuities.
Terre des hommes is member of the association "my happy end", a swiss union of non-profit organisations. www.myhappyend.org
Give the gift of life with a bequest or a legacy Who are better suited to receive bequests or legacies than children?
Children who represent our future. Children who can only have the prospect of an independent life with our support. Children who have a basic right to a life of dignity.
The requirement for this is a will. Regrettably, six out of ten people in Switzerland die without having made one, even though it is so simple to set down your wishes in a will. Without a will and with no close family (children, spouses, or parents are usually covered by the legal reserve), after your death your property will go to distant relatives or the State!
There are two ways to support the Foundation of Terre des hommes – Child Relief
Legacy (share of inheritance) You appoint the Terre des hommes Foundation (alone or with other persons or institutions) as legatee. If there are heirs, they are entitled to a legally defined minimum share of the total inheritance (legal reserve).
Testamentary gift (bequest) You bequeath Terre des hommes a set sum of money or tangible assets. This can be in the form of property, works of art, securities, valuable furniture or life insurance and annuities.
