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The Blind-Liecht Foundation was set up on 11 December 1998 by the blindekuh project team — Andrea Blaser, Thomas Moser, Jürg Spielmann and Stefan Zappa. A charitable foundation, run on an unpaid basis, was necessary so that collected funds could be used in full for the group's projects.
The purpose of the Foundation is to promote the culture of blindness and mutual understanding between sighted and blind in our society. In fulfilling this aim, the Foundation develops and supports projects which create jobs for partially sighted and blind people. These projects should be self-financing, have a fair pay structure and grant employees the right to be consulted as the structure of operations permits.
This provides a basis for commercial projects — albeit commercial projects which feed any profits back into the Foundation so that it can continue its work. The first Blind-Liecht Foundation undertaking was the blindekuh restaurant in Zurich, which opened its doors on 17 September 1999 as the world's first dark restaurant. It was followed on 15 May 2002 by the "Blindekuh, the Expo in the dark" exhibition on the Arteplage in Murten. This was to become one of the most successful projects at Switzerland's Expo.02 national exhibition. Then, on 28 February 2005, the Foundation opened blindekuh Basel in a former factory at Gundeldingerfeld, near the main railway station.
Address
Stiftung Blind-Liecht
Mühlebachstrasse 148
CH-8008 Zurich
Phone: 044 421 50 50
Fax: 044 421 50 55
E-Mail: zuerich@blindekuh.ch
Post Office account 87-660101-9
Click below to download a press release in English (pdf format).
For more information, please visit the German-language page. It provides German-language downloads of annual reports, our timeline, the deed of foundation, fund-raising concept and details of current projects.
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