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The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 (ESC) will not only take place in the arena in Basel – it will be experienced throughout the country. The new community platform ‘ESCunites’, a joint project of the SSR and Swiss Solidarity, offers an official stage for local events and activities organised by the Swiss population for the first time.

Images from our call centres of the national day of solidarity for the victims of the earthquake in South-East Asia.

Your support on social networks enables us to reach even more people with our call for donations for the earthquake in Southeast Asia.

The humanitarian crises in Sudan and the Middle East, the severe weather in Switzerland and the war in Ukraine were the focus of our work last year.

Thanks to your donations, we have already been able to fund 6 humanitarian projects, providing access to health care, food aid, hygiene and essential items, as well as fishing and farming kits.

Depuis plus d’un an, le Soudan est dévasté par un conflit meurtrier qui a plongé la région dans l'une des pires crises humanitaires au monde. Face à cette situation alarmante, nous lançons un appel urgent à la solidarité afin d’intensifier notre aide au Soudan et dans la région.

n 2023, against a backdrop of increasing crises, Swiss Solidarity (SwS) maintained its unwavering commitment to those hit by humanitarian crises. Last year, the organisation committed almost CHF 70 million to supporting the victims of humanitarian crises worldwide and vulnerable people in Switzerland. This is the single largest annual amount since 2005, when Swiss Solidarity responded to the tsunami in South-East Asia. Over the course of 2023, Swiss Solidarity raised over CHF 54 million in donations thanks to the solidarity of the people of Switzerland.

Swiss Solidarity has published its second solidarity barometer. Carried out by the Sotomo research institute in collaboration with the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation and the Center for Philantrophy Studies (CEPS), the aim of the survey is to analyse changes in the Swiss population's perception of solidarity. The survey reveals that the perception of human relations has improved considerably since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The war in the Middle East has already claimed thousands of lives, most of them civilians. The situation is particularly precarious for the 2.4 million people of the Gaza Strip. They have been cut off from water, food, medicine and electricity since 9 October.

The past few days have seen a series of humanitarian crises severely disrupt the lives of many thousands of people. Of particular concern is the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has already led to thousands of deaths.

On Saturday 7 October, a violent 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan. Early estimates place the death toll at close to 2,500, and the number of injured in the thousands. As Afghanistan had already been dealing with a grave humanitarian crisis before the quake struck, the country will not be able to recover from this latest disaster on its own. To bring urgent and vital aid to the Afghan people, Swiss Solidarity (SwS) is launching an appeal for solidarity.