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The Stöckenweid Foundation provides a place of residence and/or work as well as occupational training for people with cognitive impairment. The Stöckenweid Foundation supports its residents and co-workers with a view to facilitating their social, economic, legal and political integration. The support provided is customized to each person's needs. The aim is to enable each individual to engage with their environment in a self-determined way.
The activities of the Stöckenweid Foundation are geared towards the fundamental rights of autonomy, participation and inclusion.
In the coming years, with the support of Steinfels Swiss and others, the biodynamic market garden will be expanded to include a community garden in Egg/ZH.
For more than 30 years, the "rodania Stiftung für Schwerbehinderte Grenchen (ssbg)" (rodania Foundation for the Severely Disabled Grenchen) has been assisting adults with mental and multiple impairments. The aim is to enable these people to lead meaningful and independent lives and to participate fully in society at every stage of their lives. This is combined with respect for their autonomy and social esteem.
rodania is home and workplace for about 80 people. In two residential homes with a total of seven residential groups as well as in two outside residential groups and in workshops, the residents experience a living and working environment in which individual development is possible.
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Founded in 1942 in a flower-bedecked farmhouse for just a few children, today the “Blumenhaus Buchegg” supports over 100 people of all ages living with mental and multiple disabilities. Drawing on their wealth of expertise, experience and compassion, the staff at the “Blumenhaus Buchegg” help residents lead lives that are as independent and fulfilling as possible. And most importantly of all: “Blumenhaus Buchegg” aims to be much more than just a roof over the heads of the people who live there. Its aim is to be a home for life.
Dock Gruppe AG is a social enterprise for people who have been out of work for long periods. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the “Stiftung für Arbeit”, a St. Gallen-based foundation aimed at getting people into or back into employment. For over fifteen years, it has been offering jobs to the long-term unemployed. The group currently has 9 offices and employment contracts with around 1,400 people.
VEBO Genossenschaft is a successful cooperative that provides employment and residential services as well as vocational training for recipients of disability pensions. VEBO’s aim is to promote the integration of people living with impairments. It does this through a social commitment underpinned by professional entrepreneurship and a business-minded approach.
The “Bildungsstätte Sommeri” offers quality of life with assistance and support. People with cognitive impairments find the training, living and work places of their choice at the “Bildungsstätte Sommeri”. With its sheltered work areas, it covers a range of industrial and commercial services, with the primary focus on quality, flexibility and punctual delivery.
Borna is a work and living community for adults with disabilities. It currently offers regular work activities to 135 employees of working age, with the activities tailored to the disabilities involved and provided either via sheltered workshops or from home. Borna’s main focus is on manual work and handicrafts, and it offers a broad range of its own products for daily use, as well as keepsakes and small and large gift items.
“Stiftung Zukunft Thurgau” is a service company that has been helping jobseekers integrate into the workforce since 1999. Almost half of all those helped by “Stiftung Zukunft Thurgau” find a job within four months. This is made possible by a network of integration offices and training courses that are used by over 1,200 people each year.