Good health is a prerequisite for self-determination and fulfilment in life. A person in good health is able to develop, train and work. The bioRe® Foundation runs various projects designed to support the health of local people.
Water projects
bioRe®‘s water project in Tanzania ensures supply of safe drinking-water to the villages.
Background: Safe drinking-water is impossible or hard to have access to also for the families of our organic farmers in the villages of Tanzania. While this is a heavy burden, the water available often is contaminated and a danger to human health.
In the time of the coronavirus pandemic, access to clean water helps farming families to protect themselves from infection.
Washing hands is the most important measure against catching the virus, and it is saving lives at this moment.
Project cost:
CHF 220.-
for access to clean water
for 1 family
CHF 8’800.-
Construction of a well for approx. 40 families
Climate-relevant projects
The CO2-friendly type of stove reduces the volume of firewood required, 
which lowers the use of local trees 
This type of stove reduces CO2 emissions 
Cooking with a smoke-free stove is considerably more pleasant and healthier for farming families 
Biogas extracted from cow dung replaces fuels such as firewood or kerosene 
A biogas plant is a clean and sustainable source of energy for households 
Biogas plants are useful to both organic farming and housekeeping
The bioRe® Standard features compensation of CO2 emissions by construction and use of biogas plants and efficient stoves in the farming regions of bioRe® India Ltd. and bioRe® Tanzania Ltd.
The CO2 projects directly generate added value for organic farmers as they need less firewood and use efficient stoves and biogas plants to prevent smoke from entering their kitchens.
CO2 – questions & answers
Climate change and CO2 emissions
Why is it important to enable CO2-neutral projects?
What makes a product CO2-neutral?
The CO2-friendly type of stove reduces the volume of firewood required, which lowers the use of local trees This type of stove reduces CO2 emissions Cooking with a smoke-free stove is considerably more pleasant and healthier for farming families Biogas extracted from cow dung replaces fuels such as firewood or kerosene A biogas plant is a clean and sustainable source of energy for households Biogas plants are useful to both organic farming and housekeeping
Afforestation in Tanzania
Background: Intensive logging for firewood or building material, grazing by livestock such as goats or cows, and an increasing number of fires are destroying the tree population in Tanzania, leading to a loss of fertile soil.
The increasingly unpredictable weather is a constant challenge for Tanzanian farmers. When heavy rains or stormy winds hit the bare soil, the humus, the fertile top layer of the soil, is washed away. The result is rapid soil degradation. In addition, rainwater on bare soil runs off only superficially. As a result, it does not feed the groundwater. The groundwater level sinks more and more.
Soil protection measures, the preservation of trees and selective afforestation counteract this development.
The objective of this pilot project in the area of afforestation is to encourage farming families to make part of their farmland available for the regeneration of tree stands and then to afforest this land. These farming families then serve as role models for other families.
With your donation for climate-relevant projects, you invest in measures for soil protection, tree preservation and selective afforestation
If you would like to donate to a climate-relevant project, please state your choice as a comment in the donation form.
Sanitary facilities
Campaigns promoting health by means of construction of toilets
Project objective: to raise awareness of the significance of hygiene for their health among the families of organic farmers. With this purpose in mind, we support and fund the construction of toilet facilities for farming families.
Background: Women and girls get the greatest benefit from better hygiene. In-home toilets increase their safety and protect them from harassment and sexual assaults. To leave their homes in the darkness of the night or to be forced to use latrines outside their homes are well-known risks to women and girls in India. In addition, the lack of sanitary facilities promotes bacterial infections primarily among children. As studies demonstrate, the consequences include chronic symptoms of malnutrition permanently putting at risk the cognitive and physical development of youth.
Project cost:
CHF 300.-
for the construction of a family toilet
Mobile hospital
A health bus has offered basic medical services to communities in rural India since 2006. The bus takes local physicians through the villages to offer diagnostic services. In addition, health days are carried out with a focus on providing targeted out-patient treatment of specific diseases.
