HEKS/EPER in Switzerland

Through its work in Switzerland, HEKS/EPER fosters social inclusion for marginalized people, promotes equal opportunity and supports asylum seekers and other socially deprived people with legal advice. HEKS/EPER operates six Branch Offices in Switzerland, which run 60 projects and programms in 16 cantons.

Thanks its local and regional presence, HEKS/EPER is aware of the living conditions of socially disadvantaged people. They are at particular risk of seeing their rights violated or of social exclusion. HEKS/EPER endeavours to protect them from discrimination and to ensure that their rights are realized. The same principles govern all projects: everyone should be able to lead an autonomous life and be responsible for their own decisions. In structuring new programmes and expanding existing ones, the needs of participants will be carefully ascertained and taken into account. At the same time, HEKS/EPER relies on insights gained from scientific studies and on the knowledge and experience of other specialized entities and authorities.

Branch Offices

SAJE
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
Service d’Aide Juridique aux Exilé.e.s (SAJE)

The «SAJE» is a HEKS/EPER legal advice office that informs, guides and defends asylum seekers during and after the conclusion of their asylum procedure.

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Formation
Canton of Vaud
F to B training

The F to B training (Formation F en B) project assists and trains F permit holders throughout the process of applying for a B permit.

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carte asile
Projects in French-speaking Switzerland
BCJ-Vaud

Our legal advice service, which also provides interpreters, is available to persons who have filed a request for asylum with a Federal Asylum Centre (FAC), and who have been assigned to the Canton of Vaud but are still awaiting a decision on their case.

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Interkulturelle Dolmetschende im Bereich Bildung
Regional programme
Aargau Solothurn

The HEKS/EPER Branch Office for Aargau/Solothurn sees itself as a practice-oriented counselling and service entity that advocates with great professionalism on behalf of deprived groups in our society.

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HEKS-Regionalstelle Beide Basel
Regional programme
Basel-Stadt and Baselland

The programmes offered by the HEKS/EPER Basel Branch Office make a vital contribution to social cohesion and the inclusion of disadvantaged people in society.

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HEKS-Regionalstelle Bern
Regional programme
Berne

Through its nine programmes, the HEKS/EPER Branch Office in Berne is making a vital contribution to social inclusion for disadvantaged people, including from a language and professional standpoint, and to social cohesion.

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Espace Parents_Ateliers infromation pour les parents_6-13
Regional programme
Western Switzerland

Through a range of projects, the Branch office in Romandie is active in the areas of inclusion and legal advice for socially disadvantaged people, especially for migrants, asylum seekers and people without regular residence status.

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HEKS_Regionalstelle Bern
Regional programme
Eastern Switzerland

The programmes offered by the HEKS/EPER Eastern Switzerland Branch Office make a vital contribution to social cohesion and the inclusion of disadvantaged people in society.

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HEKS-Regionalstelle Zürich/Schaffhausen
Regional programme
Zurich/Schaffhausen

Through all of its programmes, the HEKS/EPER Branch Office for Zurich/Schaffhausen works actively for the inclusion of socially deprived groups, and advocates on behalf of asylum seekers and migrants so that they have a chance of a fair asylum procedure and are able to exercise their rights in society.

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Interregional programmes

HEKS Linguadukt - interkultureller Dolmetschdienst
Project Northwestern Switzerland
HEKS/EPER Linguadukt – intercultural interpreting service

HEKS/EPER Linguadukt supplies intercultural interpreters in about seventy languages, thereby enabling foreign-language speakers and specialists  from the health, social and educational sectors to communicate with one another.

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