Facts and Figures
In 2020, the Reka Foundation for Holiday Aid together with the Reka Cooperative raised 0.9 million Swiss francs for social holiday assistance. Thus, nearly 600 underprivileged families with 1,500 children benefitted from a week’s holiday. In addition, the Foundation supported homes, other foundations and organizations for children and young people with disabilities. A further 262 youngsters were able to profit from this. The corona pandemic had a strong impact on activities in 2020. Access to offers was severely limited during the spring holidays due to lockdown and, for all intents and purposes, no holiday camps could actually be organized for the whole year.
In the context of the revitalisation of the Foundation, the Swiss Travel Fund Reka is transferring its previous activities to the Foundation. The process will be completed by the end of 2021. As a result of the pandemic, the Reka’s financial contribution temporarily dropped significantly in 2020. But besides cash contributions, Reka also took over staff and employment costs relating to the work of the Foundation. In spite of challenging overall conditions, the Foundation stuck firmly to its plans for developing its patron base. The Foundation strives to offer at least 1,000 holiday arrangements for disadvantaged families per year. This temporarily requires higher investment in the expansion of the sponsor basis. Furthermore, in 2020 a new, autonomous web platform was launched as the Foundation’s main information medium. This investment has paid off as the Foundation has succeeded in tripling the charitable contributions it receives.
