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Science, Community, and Kids / Youth

Rio de Janeiro

Our project aims to offer vision screenings, ophthalmological examinations and pairs of glasses to schoolchildren in disadvantaged neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, with prevention action.

101 %
CHF 5’574
101%
32 backers
Escolhares 2018

Science, Community, and Kids / Youth

Rio de Janeiro and Lausanne

Escolhares 2018

by Katia Steinfeld

Public health care for the eyes of Brazilian children is missing. We are a group of Swiss & Brazilian medical students that want to change that. Help give eye exams and eyeglasses to 2’000 children!

229 %
CHF 6’889
229%
44 backers
ready or not? discovering Brazilian openness to change

Science, Journalism, and Art

Rio de Janeiro

Aesthetic innovation and new imaginaries don’t necessarily come with the economic growth. Is this the case of Brazil?

21 %
EUR 1’310
21%
14 backers
Unerhört. Umgekehrt!

Science, Community, and Environment

Brumadinho

Unerhört. Umgekehrt!

by Veronika Thaller

Forschungsprojekt einer kritisch - praktischen Theologie: Die Klagen aus Brumadinho als Impulse für eine sozio-ökologische Umkehr.

110 %
EUR 1’432
110%
23 backers
Therese

Science, Film, and Art

Guarujá

Therese

by Fabiana Serpa

Princess Therese of Bavaria, an emancipated researcher and writer travels incognito to Brazil in 1888, escorted by a Lady-in-waiting, an officer and a local guide who does not know her real identity.

2 %
CHF 175
2%
2 backers
Unveiling Turtle Voices

Science, Film, and Animals

Manaus and Zürich

We follow an award-winning researcher to the turtles in the Amazon and come across fires, poaching and climate change. A profound learning experience about turtles and life.

17 %
CHF 3’470
17%
28 backers
SoilAssembly TINKU UKU PACHA

Science, agriculture, and Art

La Chimba

SoilAssembly TINKU UKU PACHA

by Maya Minder, Hackteria.org, La Divina Papaya, and Julian Chollet (mikroBIOMIK)

TINKU UKU PACHA: Let’s create a Soil Assembly in Ecuador! Let us hear the voices of indigenous resistance, rural economies, artist and scientists. Let's gather as planetary peasants of the Earth!

141 %
CHF 14’167
141%
103 backers
Therapeutic center

Science, Fair Trade, and Community

Medellín

Therapeutic center

by thomas Godfroid

Support us for the creation of a therapeutic center with access to human beings and self-healing!

15 %
CHF 4’710
15%
28 backers
Super Scrubs

Science, Community, and Education

Accra

Super Scrubs

by Super Scrubs

Mit Ihrer Unterstützung können wir als Pflegestudentinnen unsere Reise nach Ghana und die Druckkosten für einen Pocket Guide gegen Mangelernährung finanzieren, der Pflegefachpersonen weltweit hilft.

0 %
CHF 50
0%
1 backer
Proyecto 537

Science

Switzerland and Cuba

Proyecto 537

by Tamara Embaló

Une recherche, une démarche de terrain, un pays (Cuba), une révolution, une politique culturelle, des jeunes artistes, des rêves, de l’espoir, un milieu underground et le rap comme outil d’émancipation.

9 %
CHF 390
9%
7 backers
Rettung für den Ossa-See

Science, Environment, and Animals

Dizangué

Rettung für den Ossa-See

by Crowdfund for AMMCO - Ossa Lake

Der Schwimmfarn vom Typ «Salvinia molesta» muss bekämpft werden und es gibt nun eine gute Chance, dies zu tun!

0 %
CHF 110
0%
2 backers
Teaching Genetics in Congo

Science, Kids / Youth, and Education

Kinshasa

Teaching Genetics in Congo

by Patricia Teixidor and Hugues Abriel

Join us to help fund tuition fees for Dr. Gerrye Mubungu, a young paediatrician from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), so she may implement a new medical genetics study program in Kinshasa.