Swisscontact
Swisscontact – Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation is a Swiss non-profit-organisation, which carries out projects aiming at reducing poverty in developing and transition countries. It has been founded in 1959 as a politically and denominationally neutral organisation and has 25 employees in Switzerland and approximately 400 staff abroad. The main fields of activity are fostering vocational education, small and medium enterprises, microfinance and environmental protection.