Action Margaux
Supports people with cancer, and their employers, on every employment-related question.
Targets women returning to work after cancer — a moment when self-image has to be rebuilt.
Partners
French-speaking Switzerland
We don't work alone.
Kaina is for women whom other organisations are already supporting. These are the associations across French-speaking Switzerland with which we want to build bridges: to refer, to offer solidarity places, and to make sure no woman is ruled out by the price.
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The organisations listed below are the ones we have identified and are currently approaching. They are not yet partners of Kaina Expérience, and their presence here implies neither affiliation nor any endorsement on their part. This page will be updated as agreements are reached.
Do you represent one of these organisations, or another we've missed? Write to us at hello@kaina-experience.com.
The organisations we've identified
64 organisations
In alphabetical order.
Adessia
Awareness, support and companionship around perinatal bereavement, working alongside birth professionals.
Women whose relationship to their body and to motherhood is deeply wounded — to be approached with care.
alliance F
Switzerland's largest women's umbrella organisation: over a hundred member organisations and a thousand individual members, carrying women's political voice.
A nationwide channel for reaching people, and a mark of credibility.
Alter Start
Since 2017, has offered free support to people facing precarity or with a migration background, helping them into work or into starting a small business.
Beneficiaries starting a business have an immediate need for a professional portrait.
Arcade Sages-Femmes
A public-interest association subsidised by the Canton of Geneva. Helpline seven days a week, free daily drop-in run by midwives, plus breastfeeding and postpartum groups.
The densest single point of contact with new mothers in Geneva, with a drop-in space where the offer can be presented.
Association Boulimie Anorexie
Founded in 1992: telephone helpline, email support, one-to-one meetings and support groups for people living with eating disorders.
A group at the very heart of the body-image question — to be approached only for women in stable recovery, with their therapist's agreement.
Association Découvrir
Supports qualified people — mostly migrant women — into work: guidance, CVs, interview preparation and LinkedIn profiles.
Their stated mission is to give confidence back, and their beneficiaries have a concrete need for professional portraits.
Association des Familles Monoparentales – AFM Genève
Founded in 1977 and recognised as a public-interest body. Discussion groups, emotional support, coaching at home, and legal, social and financial assistance.
Their existing discussion groups are a direct channel to solo mothers who have lost confidence.
Association des Familles Monoparentales et Recomposées – AFMR
Founded in 1976, Switzerland's largest single-parent family association: mutual aid, get-togethers and low-cost activities, a listening ear, guidance after a separation and legal advice.
Already used to offering low-cost activities: a solidarity rate slots into their programme without friction.
Association Femm'Emploi
Founded in 2022, supports women entering or returning to the workforce: practical workshops, one-to-one career coaching and monthly discussion cafés.
Squarely our audience: women coming out of a career break who need both confidence and a portrait.
Association JeunesParents
A public-interest association dedicated to early parenthood: announcing a pregnancy, combining motherhood and study, and the legal and financial questions that come with it.
Young mothers still in education face both a shaken sense of self and an interrupted path.
Association Kerma
Burnout prevention and support, including parental burnout. One-to-one consultations, peer groups and workshops across two spaces in Lully and Morges.
Parental burnout in mothers is a textbook moment of doubt, and their approach makes Kaina a natural complement.
Association MAM – Maison d'Accueil Maternel
Three free drop-in centres for parents and children aged 0 to 36 months, in Monthey, Sion and Vevey: workshops, professional guidance and peer support.
Three physical anchor points where mothers come freely.
Association Mam'ac
Welcome and temporary housing with host families for mothers in difficulty, with advice and family support.
An audience in acute distress that explicitly includes postnatal depression.
Association Materner la Mère
Raises awareness of how much the first forty days after birth matter and builds a support network: companionship, emotional support and workshops.
The same stance as ours: the mother as someone to be cared for, not only the baby.
Association Né Trop Tôt
Volunteer support for parents of premature babies: themed meet-ups, peer-parent companionship and day-to-day support by email.
Mothers of premature babies live through a postpartum that was taken from them, and a very particular guilt about their bodies.
Association Périnatalité Valais
Brings together perinatal practitioners across Valais: themed training, a directory of useful contacts and professional introductions.
A single door into the whole Valais perinatal network and its dozens of referrers.
Association RECIF
A centre for training, meeting and exchange for migrant and Swiss women: welcome, guidance, socio-educational workshops and French classes.
The least stigmatising way into the canton of Neuchâtel.
Association Savoir Patient
Hosts the Breast Cancer Network and its twenty-eight member organisations: year-round mentoring, a personal logbook, follow-up conversations and workshops.
A single door to twenty-eight organisations, with an explicit mandate around quality of life.
Association suisse des Mampreneures
An association of entrepreneur mothers: skills workshops, networking meet-ups, drop-in sessions with experts and visibility sessions.
A perfect double audience — entrepreneurs who can afford it, and women in the middle of a motherhood transition.
Association SuperMamans
More than 2,000 volunteers deliver meals to new mothers at home, with time to listen. One strand is dedicated to postnatal depression and traumatic birth.
The way they offer support pinpoints exactly the women Kaina can accompany next.
Au Cœur des Mamans
A Fribourg association supporting people who have been through perinatal difficulties: conception, pregnancy, birth, perinatal bereavement and postpartum.
Covers both a difficult postpartum and perinatal bereavement — two moments when self-image gives way.
AVVEC – Aide aux Victimes de Violence En Couple
Psychosocial and therapeutic support for people experiencing violence within a relationship, and for their children: consultations, a telephone helpline and drop-in appointments.
They explicitly support the rebuilding that follows violence — the stage Kaina carries further.
BIF – Bureau Information Femmes
Since 1981, a place for women to be welcomed, heard and guided, subsidised by the Canton of Vaud. Free, confidential, no appointment needed.
The first point of contact for many women in Vaud, at precisely the moment of doubt Kaina speaks to.
BPW Genève
The first French-speaking Swiss club of the Business and Professional Women network, founded in 1952: monthly meetings, company visits, talks and the running of Equal Pay Day.
A structured network of working women, with an equality agenda that makes a visible partnership legitimate.
BPW Lausanne
A club founded in 1959: monthly evenings, talks and company visits, supporting women's access to senior roles.
Our second city, with an audience of working women already in place.
BPW Neuchâtel
A club founded in 2005, bringing together some fifty members from a wide range of professions.
A club on a human scale, the right size for a direct presentation.
Cancer Support Switzerland
Free counselling, therapy and activities in English for people affected by cancer.
Access to Geneva's expat community — able to pay, and poorly served in French.
Career Women's Forum
A network of working women offering mentoring, skills workshops, monthly lunches and a programme for reaching board positions.
Members for whom a good professional portrait is an obvious career investment.
Caritas Suisse romande
A charitable network offering debt relief, social advice and, in some branches, couples mediation. Documents separation as a major cause of financial hardship.
They name separation as a driver of hardship — a natural partner for co-funding solidarity places.
CLAFG – Centre de Liaison des Associations Féminines Genevoises
An umbrella body for forty-three member associations in Geneva, spanning both social associations and professional networks.
Geneva's densest crossroads, where the social and professional worlds meet.
CLAFV – Centre de Liaison des Associations Féminines Vaudoises
Since 1961, has federated the mainly female associations and foundations of the canton of Vaud and strengthened their collective work.
A single way into the whole fabric of women's associations in Vaud.
La Collective
A future Geneva venue bringing together housing, a nursery, a library, a café-restaurant, a cultural centre, coworking and services for women and gender minorities.
Still being built: the moment to position ourselves as a provider for the future venue.
Coraasp
An umbrella body recognised by the federal social insurance office, federating thirty-five French-speaking Swiss organisations for support and mutual aid in mental wellbeing, and backing community projects.
One conversation opens the door to thirty-five associations across French-speaking Switzerland.
espacefemmes – frauenraum
A place for women from every background to meet, get advice and learn: courses and workshops on health, work, languages and creativity, with a children's area.
A women-only space built around confidence and independence, with childcare that removes the practical obstacle.
EUROPA DONNA Suisse
Switzerland's only breast cancer patient organisation that also campaigns politically, with peer meet-ups between women affected.
A recognised name nationally with cantonal branches here, and a meet-up format well suited to a presentation.
F-Information
A public-interest association founded in 1981: one-to-one consultations, skills assessments, group activities and a specialist library on gender.
Their skills assessments draw women in the middle of a life transition, often after having a child.
Femmes PME Suisse romande
Founded in 2014, brings together around four hundred business leaders, SME owners and freelancers across seven cantonal sections: talks, workshops, company visits and networking.
Members across every French-speaking canton with the means to buy directly — the ideal audience.
Fondation FAVA
Born of the merger of l'EssentiElles, Accueil Aurore and Point du Jour: a listening ear, one-to-one consultations, discussion groups, emotional support and help with paperwork.
A single contact for the whole of French-speaking Valais, with an outpatient side well suited to a partnership.
Fondation HOPE Suisse
Offers free supportive-care programmes to women affected by cancer — equine therapy, art therapy, integrative health — at every stage, from diagnosis to remission. More than nine hundred women supported.
The closest match in the whole list: the same women, the same non-medical day, and an explicit need for work on self-image.
Fondation IPT
A public-interest foundation created in 1972, specialising in helping people whose health has suffered back into work, through a six-month programme confirmed by a placement.
Burnout and the return to work meet head-on here, and beneficiaries finish needing a professional image.
Fondation Look Good Feel Better Suisse
A public-interest foundation running free cosmetics workshops in forty-seven hospitals and clinics, including the CHUV and the HUG, for people undergoing cancer treatment.
The same founding idea — appearance as a lever for confidence — but it stops at group sessions during treatment; Kaina carries it on one-to-one afterwards.
Fondation MalleyPrairie
Welcomes women experiencing domestic or family violence and provides more than a thousand outpatient consultations a year, in Lausanne, Morges and nine other towns across Vaud.
A very large number of women seen as outpatients, in the period just after a separation.
Fondation OTIUM
Offers more than fifty therapeutic treatments for physical and emotional wellbeing to people affected by cancer, across two centres in Geneva.
A centre already built around wellbeing during and after cancer.
Fondation Pacte
A public-interest foundation for equal opportunity: support into work and career change, the Café Carrière platform and the Ateliers Valoriser workshops.
Almost exactly our audience — women over forty-five in transition.
Fondation Profa
Runs the canton of Vaud's victim support centre and also handles sexual health, family planning and couples counselling.
One institutional partnership reaches several of our audiences at once: violence, separation, single parenthood.
Fondation Qualife
An inclusion-through-work foundation created in 2014, with a programme for people aged fifty and over: coaching, mentoring, placements and an employability platform.
The over-fifties are where women who have lost confidence in the job market are concentrated.
Fondation SOS futures mamans
Founded in 1974, supports around 3,600 mothers a year across nineteen centres: medical guidance, legal advice, material help and targeted financial support.
The widest reach across French-speaking Switzerland; a natural partner for solidarity places.
GENILEM
An association created in 1995 that supports innovative start-ups over three years, with a mentoring programme dedicated to women's entrepreneurship.
Their women's programme and their workshop day are immediate points of entry.
La Leche League Suisse Romande
Mother-to-mother breastfeeding support: free one-to-one help and monthly peer meet-ups.
Monthly meetings in small groups of mothers right in the middle of the postnatal period.
Lestime
A Geneva lesbian and feminist association: a welcome, drop-in hours, activities and meet-ups.
An audience that conventional portrait photography often serves badly.
Ligue suisse contre le cancer
The umbrella body for the cantonal cancer leagues. Each French-speaking league runs courses, workshops and groups for people affected, and manages financial assistance funds.
Seven cantonal entry points whose social workers can co-fund a day.
Maison de la femme
A Lausanne venue housing several women's associations and offering activities, drop-in hours and places to meet.
A single physical venue that concentrates several Vaud associations.
Panmilar
Birth preparation and home visits after the birth for parents who speak little French, with community interpreters in eleven languages.
Women facing both language isolation and the postpartum period; a portrait needs no translation.
Periparto
The only Swiss non-profit devoted entirely to perinatal mental wellbeing: a free point of contact, guidance, discussion groups and a peer programme.
Their audience is exactly Kaina's: women coming out of a postpartum crisis and rebuilding.
PWN Geneva-Lausanne
The French-speaking Swiss chapter of the Professional Women's Network: mentoring, networking and leadership development programmes, personal branding among them.
Personal branding is already on their programme; Kaina is its visual extension, in both our cities.
Queenager
An association supporting women through perimenopause and menopause, bringing therapists and experts together around workshops and a supportive community.
Precisely our audience: women in an identity transition looking to reclaim their own image.
Réseau Femmes
An umbrella body bringing together women's and feminist associations across French-speaking Switzerland, with a public list of its members.
One conversation opens the door to dozens of member associations — the best way to reach scale.
Réseau Pouvoir d'Entreprendre
A women's business network running monthly in-person meet-ups for freelancers, combining networking with strategic support.
Recurring monthly meet-ups in our cities, among freelancers who make their own buying decisions.
Solidarité Femmes Fribourg
The canton's only refuge since 1984, with a victim support centre mandate alongside it: a helpline day and night, consultations and legal advice.
Both a refuge and a victim support centre: one contact covers the emergency and the long follow-up.
Soroptimist International Suisse
Service clubs of working women funding study and training grants for young women, around education, leadership and financial independence.
A double opportunity: members who can afford it, and a grant mechanism that could fund days.
SOS Femmes Genève
A Geneva association welcoming, listening to and guiding women in difficulty, particularly those facing violence or the end of a relationship.
A general point of entry in Geneva, for women after a separation and outside any emergency.
Vivre comme Avant Romandie
A peer support movement made up entirely of women who have themselves been treated for breast cancer, working through visits and listening.
Reaches women after cancer, when the question of self-image is at its sharpest.
Voie F
Supports women through a training programme aimed at independence and getting back into work: written French, IT and communication. Courses are free.
Women rebuilding their independence on limited means — the natural audience for solidarity places.
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What we're proposing
To associations
A partnership with substance.
What we offer
- Free solidarity places for the women you support, every month
- A preferential rate for anyone you refer to us
- Professional portraits for your campaigns and annual reports
- A talk at your events, free of charge
What we don't ask for
- No payment of any kind
- No exclusivity
- No access to your data or your case files
- No obligation to refer anyone at all
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