Cevi

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Logo of the Cevi Switzerland

The Cevi Switzerland ( French Unions Chrétiennes Suisses ) is the association of all CVJM and CVJF of Switzerland . He is part of the global associations YWCA and YMCA. Around 12,500 members are active in seven regional associations and six independent work areas. As a Christian and international youth movement, communal experiences and empowering people are at the center of all activities. The name "Cevi" is a registered trademark of Cevi Switzerland .

Mission statement

The Cevi is a Christian , internationally oriented movement of children, young people, women and men and is part of the worldwide Christian associations of young women and men , YWCA and YMCA , for which the Christian faith is fundamental.

The association is based on the three guiding principles:

  • "We trust God to do great things",
  • «We trust people to do great things» and
  • “We dare to do big things”.

activities

In addition to around 100 training courses and around 250–270 camps, the member associations throughout Switzerland create other offers, for example adventure-oriented leisure activities in young skiing , parent-child weekends, work for peace and human rights, lunch for schoolchildren in Switzerland, and their own youth Hostel , learning aid, morning prayer meetings, health promotion and addiction prevention, making music together in the trombone choir, basketball and alpine tours.

Child and youth work

The children and adolescents are looked after by young adults who are trained for their tasks in regional and national courses. This is based on the principle of young people leading young people .

Young crowd

The Cevi youth group is the core area of ​​the association. Children and young people experience a diverse and adventure-oriented leisure offer, which mostly takes place in the great outdoors. You get the opportunity to experience community, develop yourself and take on responsibility.

The young crowd afternoons are held under the motto: head, heart and hand . This is to ensure holistic support for children and young people. A wide variety of activities are experienced in a youth afternoon, from football to handicrafts to pioneering technology. Most of the time, the programs are based on (biblical) stories.

Many young flock departments offer several camps every year. Often these camps take place outside in the tent in spring or summer, and occasionally inside. The majority of the camps take place under Jugend + Sport , the sports promotion program of the Federal Office for Sport .

Almost all young groups have certain traditions. These include, for example: Nämele (puzzle / game or the like, after which a nickname / Ceviname is assigned), food call, start or finish call at a meeting.

«Fröschli»

Fröschli are the groups of girls and boys of kindergarten age. They meet once or twice a month and experience age-appropriate programs. Usually a leading figure (stuffed animal or hand puppet) accompanies the children through the afternoon. The Fröschliprogamme live heavily from recurring processes. The groups are usually integrated directly into the local youth crowd.

Ten Sing

In the Ten Sing groups, young people put on a stage show. This usually includes singing and dancing, but can also be mixed with other shows. The Ten Sing groups develop this show independently as a joint work and are led by more experienced Ten Singers.

structure

Cevi Switzerland

Cevi Switzerland coordinates the work of its member organizations (regional associations and work areas) and represents the general association externally. He also organizes advanced training and safety courses for all Swiss members as part of youth and sport . Certain tasks are also worked out together with the other large Swiss youth associations ( scouts and young guard blue rings ).

Regional associations

"Cevihuus" in Frauenfeld

The seven regional associations offer leisure activities such as young groups , ten sing , youth groups or sports. They also organize basic leadership training for the affiliated local groups. The regional associations are:

  • Aargau-Solothurn-Lucerne-Zug
  • Basel
  • Bern
  • Eastern Switzerland
  • Unions Chrétiennes Romandes
  • Winterthur-Schaffhausen
  • Zurich

Work areas

One area of ​​work is active throughout Switzerland or even internationally. These six areas of work are:

  • Horyzon is the international cooperation of Cevi Switzerland
  • Cevi Military Service supports members of the Swiss armed forces
  • The CVJM Center Hasliberg is a holiday village
  • Cevi Alpin, activity in the mountains

history

The first forerunner groups emerged in Switzerland as early as 1768, before the first Cevi (or YMCA = The Young Men's Christian Association) was founded by George Williams in London on June 6, 1844 . The first Cevi group in Switzerland was founded by Henry Dunant in 1852.

In 1855 the YMCA World Federation was founded in Paris. The Paris base was adopted at this conference . It is still a principle for the Cevi movement and was confirmed by the YMCA World Council in 1973 as the basis for the association's activities. As a result, the establishment of the World Federation led to contacts between groups in Switzerland and other countries.

The German-Swiss YMCA Bund der Jünglingsvereine, a forerunner group of today's Cevi Switzerland, was founded in 1864. In 1902 the YMCA groups in western Switzerland merged to form the Comité romand . In Geneva , Bern , Basel , Zurich and St. Gallen , in Vaud and in Neuchâtel , the Cevi built up scout groups from 1911 onwards. In the same year the Comité Romand wanted to join the YWCA World Federation, they were accepted there, but were not given the right to vote because they only represented part of Switzerland and only one national language.

In 1911, the first Cevi unemployment program in Switzerland with courses in accounting and arithmetic was offered in the house of the YMCA- Glockenhof in Zurich. In 1913 the Cevi Military Service and the Swiss Scout Association were founded. Soldier work was created during the First World War . In 1918 the first YMCA youth secretary was appointed for German-speaking Switzerland. In 1919 the first camp was carried out on the current site of the Camp de Vaumarcus . Houses and buildings were added later; today it is a large youth center.

The women responsible from German-Swiss YMCA groups joined the Comité Romand in 1926 , and the second application for active membership in the YWCA World Association was approved. Four years later, the first YMCA secretariat in German-speaking Switzerland was opened in Basel. Establishment of the YMCA National Association in 1932. In 1934 the YMCA National Board formed the National Commission of Young Groups . Also in 1934 the first YMCA secretariat in German-speaking Switzerland was opened (in Basel).

In 1959 the “Alpenblick” holiday home in Wengen was bought. In 1964 the construction of the «CVJM Center Hasliberg» began. Many young people helped set it up. A working and living community formed the majority of the team for years. In 1967 Susanne Hofer was employed as the first secretary of the young girls' group for the Basel region. In the same year, the first training course for young group leaders took place together with women from the Zurich region. In the next few years, the work of young girls grew visibly.

In 1970 the Brotherhood Aid / Tiers Mondes Commission was founded by the two national associations CVJF and CVJM. This was the forerunner of the Cevi World Service and today's Horyzon area. In the same year, the “Courage to Congregation” work area was created, which forms house groups and parishes. From 1970, today's experience-oriented youth group work and systematic training came into being. The work of the secondary school teacher Rolf Wehrli from Seuzem was formative here . In 1973 the German-Swiss CVJF and CVJM associations and regions merged to form the CVJM / CVJF Bund.

As of 1981, all five German-speaking regions (AG-SO-LU-ZG, Basel, Bern, Eastern Switzerland and Zurich) had their own junior group secretaries. New departments joined the Cevi. In 1985, Ten Sing was founded in eastern Switzerland as a youth project by the Norwegian Tom Olav Guren. Four years later, in 1989, another division of the Cevi Alpin was founded. In 1997 the first "Villa Yoyo" was founded in St. Gallen. It is an open house for children from the neighborhood.

The three umbrella associations (Cevi Bund, CVJM National Association, CVJF National Association) as well as the independent work areas UCF Vaud and the FRUC merged in 1998 to form today's Cevi Switzerland. In 2000 there were a total of 185 youth units in German-speaking Switzerland. Also in 1998 the Euromeet , the youth meeting of the European YWCA and YMCA, with around 1000 participants took place on the Stöckalp. In 2002 the YPoM (Young People on move) division was founded. The first national Cevi camp, called Conveniat, took place in 2009 in Saignelégier in Jura with over 3000 participants and around 100 helpers. In 2010 the first nationwide Cevi day took place. In 2011 the YWCA World Council took place in Zurich. 200 volunteers helped host around 1000 women from around the world. In 2014, the 150th anniversary of the Swiss-German YMCA took place on the Gurten in Bern with 250 invited guests.

Until the beginning of the nineties, a logo of the YMCA and one of the YMCA existed side by side.

YMCA

The three red bars of the triangle symbolize the holistic approach of Pestalozzi's pedagogy ("head, heart and hand"), which are connected by the bar "YMCA".

CVJF

  • Old CVJF logo (flag)

  • Recent CVJF logo

A blue triangle surrounded by a yellow circle. During the 20th century, cvjf was written into the left half of the logo .

Cevi before 1998

Since the two associations had merged in 1973, the creation of a common logo was obvious. In order to be gender neutral, this association was called Cevi . The new logo, a red triangle with a blue circle in the middle, combined the two old logos. To symbolize the driving force, CEVI was written in italics on the bar above.

Cevi from 1998

In 1998, a stylized form of a three-dimensional representation was chosen: A slightly sloping, filled red triangle, which is wrapped by a segment of a blue ring. The projection is chosen in such a way that the ribbon can be viewed like a «C», which is supposed to symbolize the Christian faith.

literature

  • Gottfried Geissberger: Becoming, growing and being of the Christian associations of young men. Dreieck publication, Zurich 1968.
  • Walter Lang (ed.): Jungschar booklet. Material office CVJM / CVJF, Zurich 1982.
  • Margrit Schütz, Eugen Ott, Daniel Wehrli (eds.): CEVI LINIEN. CVJM / CVJF in German-speaking Switzerland. Looking back - thinking - going forward. CVJM, St. Gallen 1989, ISBN 3-85629-019-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cevi Switzerland annual report. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Felix Furrer: Portrait, Cevi Switzerland. In: www.cevi.ch. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Cevi Switzerland. Retrieved September 30, 2015 .
  4. ↑ World Alliance of YMCAs: Paris Base. In: Paris Basis. World Alliance of YMCAs, 1855, accessed April 3, 2017 .