Involvement
writing service

Voluntary support with correspondence

The writing service in Zurich City offers practical assistance to individuals who need support with correspondence, administrative tasks, registrations, and everyday issues. Volunteers help write letters, fill out forms, and understand documents.

Become a corporate partner and promote the social engagement of your employees. With flexible volunteer opportunities, your employees can not only contribute their skills meaningfully but also help provide people with access to essential everyday knowledge and competencies. Support the integration and participation of disadvantaged individuals, and together, make a statement for active solidarity.

Key Facts

  • The writing service offers practical assistance to individuals who need support with correspondence. The writing service helps these individuals with administrative tasks, registrations, and everyday questions.

    At the writing service, volunteers assist at set times with:
    Writing applications and résumés;
    Reading and writing letters;

    Filling out forms;
    Understanding official and other documents;
    Saving documents on a USB stick.

    The writing service also offers the following two-hour courses:
    Searching for apartments online;
    Application workshop.

  • Charitable Engagement;
    Your employees can engage in social activities (volunteering)
    Integration of this project into your company’s ESG strategy;

    Visibility of your company on the Life Science Cares Switzerland homepage;
    Opportunity to promote the project on your company’s website.

  • By volunteering at the writing service, your employees can actively contribute to the community.
    They assist with everyday questions, written and administrative matters, and help individuals acquire basic skills. In doing so, they make it easier for those affected to access essential knowledge

    and abilities, thereby promoting their participation in social life.

    As a volunteer, you will be invited to a networking aperitif, where you can exchange ideas with other corporate partners.

  • The shifts for each volunteer are flexibly scheduled.
    At least three shifts of two hours each.
    You decide whether to work in the traditional writing service or assist with a course, such as searching for housing online.

    You can easily sign up for shifts according to your availability in the schedule.
    All volunteers receive an on-site introduction to their tasks and are supported by writing service staff during their shifts.

  • Good German and computer skills;
    Openness, patience, and respect toward a diverse clientele;

    General knowledge is an advantage;
    Intercultural sensitivity.

  • Liaison between corporate partners and the writing service;
    Point of contact for questions;

    Organization of a networking aperitif for the volunteers of the corporate partners.

  • Life Science Cares Switzerland collaborates with various charitable non-profit partners that are selected based on established criteria.