Haile Kassa

How can we empower immigrants to proactively face their challenges and feel empowered to act?

Haile Kassa (ZH)

Current field of activity: Project manager, "imp!act for refugees"
UN sustainability goals:
Designing cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (SDG 11)
Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels (SDG 16)

Haile Kassa grew up in Ethiopia and has lived in Switzerland for 12 years. With his work he wants to help other people, especially refugees, to proactively face their challenges in their new home. Local communities or groups of immigrants in Switzerland are to be empowered to act and find solutions to their problems. To this end, Haile Kassa has developed a program called "Community imp!act", which trains selected members of a community so that they can subsequently conduct workshops for their community themselves. Haile Kassa was recently honored for his work and was named a bridge builder by the National Coalition Building Institute.