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Swiss Solidarity's fundraising campaigns since 1946

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Swiss Solidarity's fundraising campaigns since 1946

Since its original founding in 1946, Swiss Solidarity has collected over 2 billion francs of donations. This sum shows the Swiss population's confidence in Swiss Solidarity.

  • 2023 Earthquake in Turkey and Syria / Education for all / Humanitarian crisis in the Middle East
  • 2022 Ukraine / Hunger in East Africa / Flooding in Pakistan
  • 2021 Coronavirus International / Earthquake Haïti / Aid for Afghanistan / Children in need
  • 2020 Coronavirus Switzerland / Lebanon Emergency / Coronavirus International
  • 2019 Women in forgotten crises / War in Yemen / Cyclone in Mozambique
  • 2018 Rohingya / Flooding in India / Tsunami in Indonesia
  • 2017 Famine in Africa / Rockslide at Bondo / Rohingya / Education. An opportunity for children in need (JRZ17) / Coeur à Coeur and Ogni centesimo conta – Together against the precariousness of young people in Switzerland
  • 2016 Climate crisis in Africa / Hurricane Matthew / Children fleeing alone (Jrz 2016) / Cœur à Cœur – Joint forces to fight poverty in Switzerland
  • 2015 Vanuatu / Earthquake Nepal / Refugees / Youth in need (Jrz 2015)
  • 2014 Balkan Floods / Gaza / Iraq / Fleeing Families (Jrz 2014)
  • 2013 Syria / Floods Europe / Typhoon Haiyan Philippines / Children in Slums (Jrz 2013)
  • 2012 Sahel / Syria / Water (Jrz 2013)
  • 2011 North Africa / Japan / Africa / Mothers in need (Jrz 2012)
  • 2010 Earthquake Haiti / Earthquake Chili / Floods Asia (Pakistan) / Children – Victims of conflicts (Jrz 2010)
  • 2009 Gaza / Earthquake Italy / Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs Sri Lanka) / Africa / Asia / Floods in Salvador (Central America/Caribbean) / Malaria (Jrz 2009)
  • 2008 Cyclone Myanmar/Burma / Floods Asia / Caribbean / Africa/Congo / KiddyPlus – Children Relief
  • 2007 Storms in Switzerland / Floods in Asia / Peru (earthquake) / Greece (forest fires) / Mexico-Caribbean / Cyclone Bangladesh (Floods Asia) / Couleur Terre (water projects)
  • 2006 Floods in Europe / Earthquake Java / Children – Victims of war (Middle East)
  • 2005 Africa (Sahel) / Natural Disasters Switzerland / Hurricane Central America / Earthquake Kashmir
  • 2004 Internally Displaced Persons Darfur (Sudan) / Floods Asia / Cyclone Haiti (Caribbean) / Indian Ocean Tsunami
  • 2003 Civil Populations Iraq, Algeria / Children – Victims of war / Earthquake Iran (Bam)
  • 2002 Volcanic Eruption Goma / East Africa / Floods in Europe / Floods Asia / Storms in Switzerland / Famine in Southern Africa
  • 2001 Earthquake India (Gujarat) / Earthquake Central America / Conflict Afghanistan
  • 2000 Floods in Mozambique / Southern Africa / Famine in East Africa / Natural Disasters in Asia / Floods and landslides in Switzerland (Valais and Ticino)
  • 1999 Earthquake Colombia / Avalanches and Storms in Switzerland / Victims of armed conflict in Kosovo / Earthquake in Turkey / Cyclone in India and Floods in Vietnam / Venezuela / Hurricane Lothar in Switzerland
  • 1998 Earthquake in Afghanistan / Landslides in Southern Italy / second Earthquake in Afghanistan / Floods in China / Famine in Southern Sudan / Hurricane Mitch in Central America / Aid to refugees from Kosovo / Hardship and poverty in Switzerland
  • 1997 Albania / Earthquake in Iran / Cyclone in Bangladesh / Storms in Switzerland (Sachseln in canton of Obwald) / Floods in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 1996 HIV positive people and people living with AIDS / Civil war victims in Former Yugoslavia / Refugees in Rwanda and Zaire / 50th anniversary campaigns Fight against poverty in Switzerland and Educational support in developing countries
  • 1995 Civil war in Former Yugoslavia / Aid to population of Haiti / HIV positive people and people living with AIDS
  • 1994 Civil war in Former Yugoslavia / civil war in Rwanda
  • 1993 Support to unemployed and victims of economic crises in Switzerland / civil war in Former Yugoslavia / Earthquake in India / Floods in Switzerland (cantons of Valais and Ticino)
  • 1992 Civil war in Former Yugoslavia / Population of Somalia
  • 1991 Victims of Gulf war / Water-Campaign / Former Yugoslavia
  • 1990 Children of Chernobyl / Iran / Philippine / Jordan / URSS Eastern Countries
  • 1989 Rumania / Lebanon
  • 1988 Earthquake in Armenia / Sudan / Natural Disaster / Bangladesh / Central America
  • 1987 Natural disaster Switzerland / Equator Earthquake / Famine in Ethiopia and Mozambique
  • 1986 Fight against world famine / Salvador Earthquake
  • 1985 Cyclone in Bangladesh / Earthquake in Mexico / Eruption of volcano “Nevado del Ruiz” in Colombia
  • 1984 Fight against world famine
  • 1983 Refugees in Switzerland and the Third World / Social Aid in Switzerland
  • 1982 Refugees from Lebanon / Third World Children
  • 1980 Earthquake in Southern Italy and in El Asnam, Algeria
  • 1979 Earthquake in Yugoslavia / War victims in Cambodia
  • 1978 Floods in India, Vietnam and Switzerland / War victims in Lebanon
  • 1977 Cyclone in India / Earthquake in Rumania / Floods in Switzerland
  • 1976 Earthquakes in Guatemala, Turkey and Friul (Italy)
  • 1975 Assistance to unemployed people
  • 1974 Vacation for elderly people
  • 1971 Refugees from Tibet and Bengal
  • 1969 Handicapped children in Switzerland
  • 1968 Earthquake in Sicily / Avalanches in Switzerland
  • 1966 Fight against famine in India / Floods in Florence (Italy)
  • 1965 International broadcast: Children in Need / Fall of the Mattmark Glacier (Switzerland)
  • 1964 Fight against racism (international broadcast)
  • 1963 Earthquake in Skopje / Crevasses in Longarone (Italy)
  • 1962 Floods in Badalona, Spain / Fight against malaria (international broadcast)
  • 1961 Fight against leprosy (international broadcast)
  • 1960 Earthquakes in Agadir (Morocco), Chile and Iran
  • 1959 Collapse of dam in Fréjus, France
  • 1958 Floods in Cévennes mountains, France
  • 1957 Floods in Spain
  • 1956 Mining disaster in Marcinelle, Belgium
  • 1954 Earthquake in Algeria (Orléansville) / Floods in Italy (Salerno)
  • 1953 Floods in the Netherlands, Belgium and England / Earthquake in Greece
  • 1951 Floods in the river Po valley / Avalanches in Switzerland
  • 1950 Fight against tuberculosis
  • 1949 Second international broadcast for children
  • 1948 International broadcast for children / Floods in the Moselle region
  • 1947 Emergency aid to families
  • 1946 Swiss Solidarity's first broadcast on 26 September