The first Swiss Solidarity radio broadcast on September 26, 1946. The guest is a Swiss woman from Vaud who has taken in a British orphan.
Keystone / Str Ho
Roger Nordmann (left) and Jack Rollan, the founders of Swiss Solidarity, November 1946.
Chaîne du Bonheur
Canned food collected and sorted in a warehouse after a flood on the Moselle in December 1948.
Chaîne du Bonheur
A campaign in January 1948 that collected books for donation to a sanatorium.
Keystone / Walter Studer
Material collected for the Italian victims of the floods in the Po valley, December 1951.
Chaîne du Bonheur
Volunteer calling for donations for the Italian victims of the floods of the Po plain, December 1951.
Chaîne du Bonheur
Raising money for Swiss Solidarity in Geneva in January 1967.
Keystone / Vaterlaus
Selling flowers to raise money.
Chaîne du Bonheur
Collecting donations for earthquake-stricken Sicily in a school in Renens (canton of Vaud) in 1968.
Keystone / Str
In 1971, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Swiss Solidarity launched a nationwide appeal for donations for the children of Bangladesh.
Keystone / Joe Widmer
Sixty children from Chernobyl, directly affected by the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster, were welcomed at Zurich airport in July 1991. Funds raised by Swiss Solidarity enabled them to spend a three-week vacation in Switzerland.
Keystone / Str
Collecting pledges on Swiss television in November 1991.
Keystone / Str
A Swiss Solidarity collection for projects to support unemployed people in Switzerland, September 1992.
Keystone / Str
Raising funds for the victims of the 1992 civil war in Somalia.
Keystone / Str
Counting donations for the fundraising campaign for the displaced persons in Rwanda in 1994. Around CHF10 million was raised.
Keystone / Patrick Aviolat
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