Published on December 11, 2024 at 08:50. / Modified on December 11, 2024 at 09:07.
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“With 220 employees and more than 9,000 volunteers, the public utility foundation WWF Switzerland is the leading environmental defense organization in our country.” To this welcome sentence on the website of the famous NGO, Thomas Vellacott, general director, adds: “Every day, I marvel at the beauty and diversity of nature. This is why I am acting with others to protect it, so that future generations will also have the chance to admire it.”
If it were completely transparent, the boss could complete: “The only difference between the 9,000 volunteers and me, in this daily fight, is that I pocket 16,666 francs per month, while they earn nothing.” Because, yes, informs the magazine Good to know in its last December issue, the head of the Swiss WWF rakes in 200,000 francs annually, equal to the director of Caritas Switzerland. A ranking of the salaries of the leaders of the main Swiss NGOs won by the director of the Swiss Foundation for Paraplegics who receives 284,000 francs, ahead of the leader of the Swiss Red Cross, with an annual salary of 262,000 francs. A little embarrassing, no, when we know that these structures, in addition to relying largely on volunteers, also depend mainly on public donations…
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