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1972
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The Foundation
is created on March 13 by Mr. Dr. Arthur Wiederkehr
in close collaboration with Mr. Antonio Zweifel.
Declaration of tax-exemption and creation of the first Subfoundations.
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1974-76
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Educational
program Linear Function with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich
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1975
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First projects
in developing countries (Nigeria, the Philippines)
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1977
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First issue
of the publication Familie und Erziehung
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1980-82
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Realization
of the Global Program financed by the Federal Republic of Germany:
22 training projects in eleven developing countries
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1983
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Creation of
the subfoundation Aurora for projects in Italy
in the fields of vocational training (especially in computer) and
medicine
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1985-86
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Cofinancing of development
cooperation projects in Peru and Kenya
with European governments
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1988
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Beginning of
the cooperation with the Swiss Development Cooperation SDC (Bern) through a training project in
the Philippines
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1989
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Death of Toni
Zweifel, founder of Limmat
Stiftung
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1991
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700th anniversary
of the Swiss Confederation: scholarship program for 700 women in developing
countries
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1992
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Symposium in
Zurich on
Vocational Training and Development Cooperation. 120 participants from 28
countries (Book Changing Mentalities)
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1993
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Creation of
the Karl Lukas Honegger Patronage
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1995
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Creation of
the subfoundations for Street Children
and the Jepa-Limmat
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1996
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Creation of
the subfoundation Esmeralda. Financing
of several social projects in Greece, Albania, France and Colombia
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1997
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25th anniversary
of the Limmat Foundation: International Conference on Social Enterprise,
special publication and Website www.limmat.org
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1998
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Co-founding
of EGEDES, School for Management of Social Development, Cali,
Colombia
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2000
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Creation of
the Tamaro Foundation, with the aim to
support humanitarian and educational projects
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2001
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Creation of
the Patronage Committee of the Limmat Foundation / Beginning of the
process of beatification of Toni Zweifel,
initiator of the Limmat Foundation
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2002
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100th anniversary
of Karl Lukas Honegger
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2004
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Creation of
the Subfoundations Murillo and Roesenbüuhl; Dr. Hans Thomas is elected president
of the Board of the Foundation
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2005
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Tour of the
Bosconia orchestra (former
street children from Colombia) in Europe; concerts in Zurich, Bern,
Geneva (UN) and Liechtenstein
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Introduction
