Develop
The 1st network of sport and well being skills and activities offered to all disabled persons in Switzerland, all year round;
Prove
The long lasting benefits of our activities, to improve physical and mental health of our Fellows, using the work of our daughter foundation, Science For Smiles;
Promote
Our model Just For Smiles, to convince stakeholders and public opinion to progress towards acknowledging the right to live for all, regardless of their disabilities;
Anticipate
The fast growing loneliness and the silent misery of the more vulnerable persons in Switzerland.
Steadiness
To be committed and able to adapt to circumstances, to overcome difficulties and fulfil our mission.
Integrity
Always have in mind public interest, and be useful to all as a united team, acting with respect, transparency, exacting standards and reliability.
Inclusion
Serve all our beneficiaries and collaborate with all our partners and members in a fair and non preferential way.
Innovation
Develop our pioneering spirit and capitalize on our ability to be open, curious and motivated to remain on the leading edge of new development possibilities, while keeping exacting standards for safety and controls.
Inspiration
Continue to inspire personal vocations to bring more people, corporations and institutions to embrace our ideal and mission.
Independence
Keep our activity independent from external influence, intellectually and financially. Our funding must therefore remain 100% private.
Safety and equipment suitability
Just For Smiles has designed and adopted exacting standards to guarantee the safety of its beneficiaries, so that families, institutions and service/equipment providers are satisfied.
Scientific acknowledgment
Science For Smiles, daughter foundation of Just For Smiles, has scientifically proven the now well known benefits of sport – handicap practice.
Transparency and financial strength
Just For Smiles provides all guarantees of regulatory financial information available to its funds providers
Acknowledgment of public interest and tax deductibility
Just For Smiles is a foundation which has been acknowledged of public interest, and as such is eligible for tax deductibility.
Our Fellows are the persons with a physical, mental or psychic disability, or with impaired mobility, who benefit from all our sport-handicap or well being activities (tandem ski, catamaran, joëlette, go-kart…), regardless of the type and severity of their handicap:
Our Fellows are living either with their families or in institutions, and they register through our dedicated internet platform www.justforsmiles.ch . They are mostly of Swiss origin, but some are from other countries, and we would like to see more of our European neighbours to discover and enjoy our activities, to eventually duplicate the model abroad.
“The activities offered by Just For Smiles give our residents access to new sensations and feelings, help them to open up and share a new living experience in our society, which in turn leads to and facilitates a living integration process.”
A coach at Clair Bois
Creation of the Just for Smiles association
Just for Smiles was the brainchild of Mike Boon and Patrick Sumi who, in 2004, ran around Lake Geneva to raise the funds required to create an association whose role would be to support the development of disabled sports.
The first disabled activities site opened in Villars-sur-Ollon
Agreement with medical advisers and cantonal authorities for the organisation of disabled activities outside specialist institutions
Creation of the first disabled hiking site with the Swiss association of mid-mountain guides.
Just for Smiles became a Foundation with public interest status
Operation, in partnership with the Asa-Valais association, of the first disabled sailing site in Le Bouveret
Framework agreement with Swiss Snowsport for the creation of a nationally recognised training programme for disability skiing instructors
Accreditation for the standardisation and security of disabled activity sites with the support of the Swiss Federal Bureau of Equality
Accreditation and operation of Switzerland’s first yacht for people with restricted mobility, in Estavayer-le-Lac
Launch and exploitation of a catamaran in Neuchâtel
Scientific study (tandem ski biomechanics project) in partnership with the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and the University of Health Sciences (HESAV)
Launch of a pilot biomechanics project (tandem ski scientific study) in partnership with the CHUV and the HESAV
Participation in the 2016 Estavayer Federal Wrestling Festival
Acquisition of the 4th boat for the port of Rolle
Participation in the Tour de Romandie cycling race – Payerne
Inauguration and launch of the karting activity in Payerneland
Acquisition and exploitation of a 4th boat in the port of Rolle
Projet for of a catamaran on Lake Zurich
Projet for a kart racing site in Roggwil
Exploration of a ski site in Sörenberg
SEVERELY DISABLED PEOPLE IN SWITZERLAND
PARTICIPANTS IN OUR ACTIVITIES IN 2022
Gliding through the snow, riding the waves, taking in the fresh air of the great outdoors, experiencing the exhilaration of speed: Just for Smiles is a Foundation with a public interest status that gives children, teenagers and adults with restricted mobility the opportunity to enjoy all the excitation and freedom of outdoor activities.
IBAN
CH63 0483 5048 2364 2100 0
Post
10-789167-7
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