Dear friends and supporters of the Johanniter-Malteser Stiftung Aide & Assistance The humanitarian situation in Eastern Europe remains very tense. Not only in Ukraine, but increasingly also in neighbouring Moldova, which has taken in a large number of refugees since the beginning of the war. To support both countries in a targeted way, we are organizing our next collection day: 10th National Collection Day for Ukraine and Moldova Saturday, January 17, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Locati

At the end of October 2025, Grand Hospitaller Dr. Josef Blotz visited the Swiss Association of the Order of Malta on the occasion of the 20th Zurich Charity Event in support of the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem. In his role, Josef Blotz is responsible for all of the Order's charitable, humanitarian, and medical activities worldwide. Josef Blotz also had the opportunity to visit the Johanniter-Malteser Foundation Aide & Assistance at its warehouse near Zurich. For many

Dear friends and supporters of the Johanniter-Malteser Stiftung Aide & Assistance The war in Ukraine has now been ongoing for almost four years! The people affected by the conflict, including those displaced within Ukraine and in neighboring countries, continue to rely on our help. Therefore, we warmly invite you to the upcoming collection day for Ukraine: 9th National Collection Day for Ukraine Saturday, May 24, 2025, from 10 am to 3 pm Location: Brägger + Thomann Embraport

Under the theme „𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬“, we aim to ensure that women and newborns are better protected in 2025. We are also actively committed to improving access to health services for mothers and children in particularly disadvantaged countries. Auch wir engagieren uns aktiv, um den Zugang zu Gesundheitsdiensten für Mütter und Kinder in besonders bedürftigen Ländern zu verbessern. Two examples of our work: 🏥 In Ghana, we success

Dear friends of the Johanniter-Malteser Stiftung Aide & Assistance The need to help the people in Ukraine remains significant. Therefore, we are organizing our next collection day: 8th National Collection Day for Ukraine Saturday, 9 November from 10 am to 3 pm Brägger + Thomann Embraport A, 8424 Embrach   We would like to invite you all to participate in this important initiative and bring urgently needed relief supplies: ontinue collecting because the people in Ukraine stil

Although things have calmed down somewhat in the strategically important city of Mykolaiv (in the south of Ukraine), there are still regular alerts and rocket attacks on civilian targets. The hospitals are overloaded and the war shows no mercy. Thanks to our very good contacts in the international Johanniter network, we received a call for help for urgently needed medical equipment for Mykolaiv, especially for the children's hospital. A few days ago, our fully packed lorry a

On 14 July 2022, the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia was the victim of a Russian missile attack that left over 200 seriously injured and 28 dead, including four-year-old Liza Dmytrieva, who was born with Down syndrome. At the Vinnytsia Regional Hospital, 20 seriously injured patients were admitted to the burns department every minute. Today, the hospital is one of the most important care centres for the wounded in Ukraine and specialises in burns. The hospital asked us fo

Dear friends of the Johanniter-Malteser Stiftung Aide & Assistance Last Sunday was World Health Day, this year's motto being "My health, my right". Why we are using this day as an appeal for our 7th national collection day for Ukraine becomes very clear when Pauliina Nykänen-Rettaroli, Head of the Human Rights Department at the WHO, states in her statement for this year's World Health Day: "Conflict disrupts access to basic health care and causes untold trauma, the effects o

War has been raging in Ukraine for almost two years and there is still no end in sight. Important infrastructures have been destroyed and have plunged the entire country into great debt – poverty is immense. The most basic necessities are lacking everywhere. Especially the heat and energy supply is endangered and there are daily power outages. In view of the cold winter, we therefore call again for a collection day for the suffering population in Ukraine: Saturday, October 21

Last year, we were able to send 42 articulated lorries and containers to Ukraine and its neighbouring countries in cooperation with the Swiss Johanniter. Many of the relief items came during the four collection days of 2022. A big thank you to all the volunteers and donors! But even one year after the war began, the local Ukrainian population continues to suffer from constant bombardment. They have lost everything: their homes, clothes, Food, Medicine, Blankets and so much mo

Fribourg/Köln/Lviv. In the second year of war, the Ukrainian population must continue to be supported with diverse humanitarian aid,...

We continue to send aid transports to the crisis region. We are currently helping to set up an ad-hoc hospital in Poland and were able to...

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported us on the collection day on 12 March. Thanks to your active help,...

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks for the numerous donations of material that found their way to our central warehouse in...

Press release from March 2, 2022 Since February 24, 2022, the world has been following the acts of war in Ukraine with horror. While the...