Stiftung Weidli Stans

The foundation aims to promote the quality of life for people with disabilities. It provides a wide range of housing, work, employment and training opportunities. It promotes the economic and social integration of people with disabilities into society. The foundation pursues this purpose through: a) Provision and operation of living space for people with mental and multiple disabilities in the canton of Nidwalden; b) Provision and operation of jobs, employment and training positions for people with mental and multiple disabilities in the canton of Nidwalden. For this purpose, the foundation can also c) provide and operate sheltered workplaces for people with mental disabilities; d) Provide and operate sheltered housing for people with mental disabilities; e) run a special education school. The foundation works together with the canton of Nidwalden and the Swiss Confederation and their offices and concludes the performance agreements necessary to achieve the purpose. It works with existing institutions in the handicapped sector and with socially active bodies at communal, cantonal and Swiss level. In order to achieve the purpose, the foundation can acquire, manage, rent, lend or sell real estate.