The association aims to take on non-profit and social tasks, primarily in developing and emerging countries. It provides the population, institutions and organizations with relief and commercial goods, finances and personnel for this purpose and supports them with training and further education programs. In doing so, it places self-help at the center of its commitment and attaches importance to transparency and sustainability. The association's activities are exclusively and irrevocably non-profit. To achieve the purpose of the association, it can acquire, lend, encumber, build, sell, rent and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad. Furthermore, the association can carry out all activities that are directly or indirectly related to its purpose.