People in Need

Need is above all a consequence of structural alienation. People are no longer integrated into a tribe and have forgotten the importance of the connection with the soil, the forests and the water. Their traditional crafts are being flooded with cheap products, destroying local markets.

Future Shaping Ethics supports people in their aspirations for education and independence.

Elbis

Elbis is a young Peruvian man who has had to work since he was 12 years old. His father left the family when he was very young and his mother also stopped coming home one day. He has been self-sufficient since the age of 12, but has still completed elementary school.

Future Shaping Ethics financed Elbis‘ training as a tattoo artist and his living costs during this time. Today he is self-employed, sells clothes and does tattoos.

Chaikuni Institut

The Chaikuni Institute focuses on intercultural education, permaculture and human and natural rights. Young men from the jungle work at the Chaikuni Institute. They have a vast knowledge of the plants of the jungle and their culinary and medicinal uses. They have a huge wisdom, however have very little education. Education allows them to bring their wisdom into the world and make a living of what they already know.

Future Shaping Ethics financed the education, the lost wages and the travel costs of 2 young men for 2 years.

Single Mother

Single mothers have to face the challenges of limited time. They work, they take care of their children, they cook and clean. They do everything that used to be shared across an entire community.

Also Switzerland is structurally imbalanced.

Future Shaping Ethics supported the additional education of a single mother. Her son was small at the time and she was no longer able to work more than 60%. With this additional training, she later received more pay.