Focus on Stamps 04/2005 - Die Schweizerische Post

Sales: from 22.11.2005,
while stocks last
Post offices: until 31.1.2006
Philatelic
salespoints: until 30.6.2006
Pre-release: from 15.11.2005
Validity: unlimited from 22.11.2005
Unstamped covers will be available for
CHF 0.90 each at all philatelic salespoints and
the Stamps and Philately Customer Service from
8.11.2005.
Printing: Flexo printing, 4-colour;
Permapack AG,
Rorschach,
Switzerland
Sizes:
Stamps: 3328 mm
Sheet: 156164 mm
(5 rows of 4 stamps)
Paper: white stamp paper, self-adhesive
on backing paper,
220 gm 2
Perforation: serpentine cut
(4 sides)
First-day
cancellation:
10
First-day cover motif
Designer: Angelo Boog, Wallisellen ZH
Author: Isabelle Schiess,
pro juventute Headquarters,
Zurich
Learning
together,
learning
from each
other
Continued from page 8
figures: In 2004, the telephone help-line
147 fielded 25 000 calls – 10 000 more
than two years ago.
The calls and e-mail inquiries cover a
wide range of topics. Frequent questions
concern sexuality, first love or problems
at school or with finding an apprenticeship
training position. Pro juventute
combats high unemployment among
young people – the rate for 15- to
19-year-olds was 3.4 percent at the
beginning of 2005 – through traineeships,
because companies’ increasingly
exacting demands make it difficult to
find a suitable training position.
The traineeship system is pro juventute’s
response to the need for a meaningful
bridge that provides experience after
completion of compulsory schooling. The
young people have an opportunity to
actively support a family for six to twelve
months. They learn what it means to
take responsibility and show flexibility
and openness when faced with new and
unknown situations.
Alongside the themes of “poverty” and
Info
For more information about the above-mentioned
pro juventute services and projects, see:
www.projuventute.ch or call 044 256 77 77
Complete UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child and more about the rights of the child:
www.projuventute.ch
Stamp booklet 2005
Always to hand. A neat stamp booklet with 6 self-adhesive A-stamps and 6 self-adhesive B-stamps –
folded to credit-card size – ensures you always have the right stamp with you. The stamp booklet
is on sale at all philatelic salespoints, from Swiss Post’s Stamps and Philately Customer Service, from
the pro juventute Foundation, at all Swiss post offices and from stamp dealers for CHF 17.00.