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Rural Access

All-weather roads and bridges offer rural residents lifelines to markets and essential services. Helvetas works with local partners to build these connections and open pathways to new opportunities.  
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Where and How We Work

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Where We Work

Helvetas helps people in more than thirty countries, actively improve their living conditions. Find out more about our work in each of these countries here.

Working Principles

We strive for a fairer world in which everyone can fulfill their basic needs. We help people improve their own livelihoods in sustainable ways.

Advisory Services

Meet Helvetas’ multi-disciplinary team of development experts, who advise local governments, the private sector and civil society organizations.

Our Topics

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Rural Access

We’re helping people get better access to markets, schools and hospitals.

Education and Vocational Skills

Lack of education perpetuates inequality because poor countries cannot compete economically without a skilled workforce.

Governance, Peace & Migration

In many countries where we work, men and women are unable to claim their rights and participate actively in decision-making processes.
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Water

Every year, we help 500,000 people gain access to drinking water and basic sanitation.

Private Sector Development

Economic growth does not always benefit the poor and poverty is bad for growth. We need to make a proactive effort to break this vicious cycle.

Gender and Social Equity

Helvetas makes sure that our work actively and meaningfully includes and supports the most disadvantaged groups.

Climate & Disaster Resilience

Every year, we support over 1,000,000 people in adapting to climate change, reducing the risks of disasters, sustainably managing natural resources, and conserving nature.

Selected Projects

Bolivia

Preparing for Extreme Weather with Resilient Infrastructure

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Ethiopia

Suspension Bridges: Lifelines to the World

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Bhutan

Protecting and Sustainably Using Forests

Madagascar

Clean Drinking Water and Hygiene Make for Good Health

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Mozambique

Improving People’s Living Conditions and Health Conditions

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Travel around the world with our stories

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Stateless – the Fate of the Rohingya

In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, Rabeya Begum and Mohamad do everything they can to enable their young son Mohamad Rizwan to live in dignity.

Where the Sun Pumps the Water

How the construction of a solar pump has made life easier for the people of a small village in Mali.

Hoping for a Better Life

Day after day, more than 1,500 mostly young people leave Nepal. One of them, Suraj Ghalan, wants to work in Saudi Arabia.

Our latest blogs & news

Blog 12. April 2021

Campaigning for Growth: Albanian Farmers Unite to Reduce Fuel Prices

Blog 11. April 2021

Inclusive Plug Episode 12: Does the Monitoring & Results Measurement System Serve Development Projects?

Press Release 06. April 2021

INGOs Call for an End to Violence Against Civilians Including Children and Warn of Imminent Humanitarian Crisis

Press Release 01. April 2021

Ethiopia: Statement on the Killing of Humanitarian Aid Workers

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Change takes place where people have decided to break new ground. Teófilo Caraballo is a prime example: He made it possible for his family to drink clean water from their own tap.