Switzerland

One of our most successful international projects was the Drawings of Love, through which 22,000 children from 30 countries send drawings and messages of affection, which were distributed to the thousands of children orphaned by the tsunami 2005 in Banda Aceh.

After the earthquake in May, 2006 we delivered thousands of Kids to Kids packs to the affected area in Yogyakarta, Bantul and Klaten. Ten thousand school packs with school supplies were distributed in partnership with Khalsa Aid bringing great joy to the children.

One thousand Swiss children participated in our Kids to Kids programme for children in Kenya. With this programme we were able to send school supplies and furniture, books and toys to support a new school built by Tegla Laroupe, a world marathon woman champion, in the north-western part of Kenya.

The Swiss branch of The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles sent a 20-foot sea container to Cambodia in December 2004 with clothing, school supplies, computers, bicycles, food, toys and medical equipment.

During the winter of 1990, when the Russian people were suffering severely from food shortage and economic hardships due to the political changes, the German people wished to express their gratitude for what President Gorbachev had done for them in helping reunite their country. The German, Swiss and Austrian branches of The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles began sending trucks with urgently needed food and clothing to Russia. This is how our worldwide humanitarian service began.

One thousand Swiss children participated in our Kids to Kids programme for children in Kenya. With this programme we were able to send school supplies, books and toys and sponsor building the classroom walls for orphans in Kenya.

The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles organisation has worked closely with an organisation in Maputo, Mozambique which is seeking to increase literacy and schooling and giving people the tools and skills they require to raise themselves out of poverty.

Air shipments of toys, clothes and school supplies were delivered from Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in 2003.

In early June 2004, a truck load of school equipment, clothing, food items and books from the Swiss branch of The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles was delivered to a children's home in Sri Lanka.

From Switzerland seventy-two boxes of medical supplies valued at US$10,120 were offered to a local Buddhist temple, where they were included in a sea container destined for Sri Lanka.

The equivalent of six 20-foot sea containers was sent in the summer of 2003, starting with a container of computers, medical supplies, clothing and food items from Switzerland.