Mission

“I AM TOMORROW’S FUTURE”

Nolonwabo Batini, a 15-year-old girl from Ndzondelelo High School in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, made this self-confident discovery when Roger visited her school. Her conviction became the vision and the central theme of the Roger Federer Foundation. The Foundation wishes to enable as many children as possible to take control of their future, and to actively shape it. In many countries in the world, countless children have no access to education or sport. Or the poor quality of the existing offers prevents the children from getting a fair chance to exercise self-determination. For this reason, the Roger Federer Foundation promotes access to education, sports and play, and improves the quality where there are no or only insufficient funds available.

The Roger Federer Foundation is a charitable Foundation. It works with carefully selected local organisations in long-term partnerships. It supports the development of individual skills, searches for innovative possible solutions and acts in a targeted way in order to improve the children’s situation over the long term. The involvement is concentrated on few chosen countries in Africa and Switzerland.

The Roger Federer Foundation ensures that the population in question assumes joint responsibility for the solution of its problems with regard to the contents, organisation and finances. The children, their families and their community should contribute their suggestions in both the requirements analysis and the development of innovative possible solutions and actively cooperate in the implementation.

The Roger Federer Foundation is a professionally managed Grant Foundation that is committed to the rules of the Swiss Foundation Code. The organization strictly follows a system of check and balances and an efficient project management cycle. Transparency, measurability and evaluation of the activities are fundamental. As a learning institution the Foundation seeks the advice of experts and stakeholder and is therefore member of SwissFoundations, an association of Swiss Grant Foundations.