“The Wetter Foundation pour les enfants de l’Indochine” was officially registered under Swiss Law in St.Gallen, Switzerland - the home town of the founder, Rolf Kuehne, on June 20th 2001.

Rolf Kuehne was born in 1944 in Switzerland, but lived and worked in the Far East for much of his career. Extensive travel in many Far Eastern countries gave him first-hand impressions of living conditions, particularly for small children. For over 30 years he witnessed orphans and children growing up in acute poverty, without a roof over their heads, without even primary care and education. Such scenes were deeply engraved on his mind, and he determined that when he retired from business life, he would set up the Foundation, together with his wife Christiane, and his son Michael.

Michael lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He and a close friend of Rolf’s, Mr. Hoang Son, personally guide each project from its outset right through to completion.

Hoang Son was born in Vietnam in 1944, but lived and worked in Paris for 45 years. In 1990 his job took him back to Vietnam where he founded ‘Fraternité Enfance Vietnam’ - a charity dedicated to educating orphaned and homeless ‘street children’. This charity is now part of the well-known ‘Enfants du Mékong’ organisation. Hoang’s humanitarian efforts led him later to join Rolf at the Wetter Foundation, where he is a member of the Executive Board.

We are very pleased to annouce that early 2008, Mr. Thomas Schelling a long standing friend of the founder has joined the Board of The Wetter Foundation. Thomas just retired from Nestle after over 40 years of service. He spent most of his career in Asia or working for Asia at Headquaters'. The last few years he also looked after Vietnam hence bringing to the Foundation deep knowledge of the region and its people.