A new website has been set up in the Geneva area, designed to help parents and families find the best child care solution for their needs.Called Baby Best Friend (www.babybestfriend.ch), this comprehensive online platform, aims to put parents in touch with independent child-care workers, who can be selected according to a range of different criteria. You can indicate, for example, whether you require a baby sitter, nanny or day care mother, where you live and what language you speak.
Browsing the database contained within the website requires no registration and is absolutely free. The database provides a short profile on each candidate, excluding their full name and contact details. Once you find a potential candidate, you are asked to register for membership in order to obtain the contact information and full profile details for all baby-sitters, nannies, day-care moms, etc. on the site.
Explaining why she decided to set up the website, Baby Best Friend founder, Yasmina, says, “ Given the high number of families moving into and out of the Geneva area, it is clear that many of the traditional support networks provided by extended families in the last century do not exist for many families here. This is often due to relocation from one's place of origin due to work, but can also be due to marriage or just simply life's circumstances.”
Trade in the last edition and get a new one for just Fr. 25.-!Don’t forget to bring along a copy of your Know-it-all passport to Expat-Expo, which is taking place this Sunday, 10 October from 11h-17h, at Palexpo in Geneva.
Lisa Cirieco-Ohlman, editor of the book, is making a special offer to customers who bring in their 2009/2010 edition. All you have to do is find your old green copy at home and bring it to Lisa on the stand (L1) who will trade it in for the new edition for just Fr. 25.-. Since the regular price is Fr. 38.- in stores, this is a great incentive to upgrade.
A team of 14 people updated the 7th edition, which includes over 700 pages and features literally hundreds of new entries. In response to customer demand, two new sections covering NIGHT LIFE and CHOCOLATE have also been added.
To help readers look up information more quickly than before, all entries have been reclassified to form a new, improved TABLE OF CONTENTS. The new sections can be easily identified by the full-page photos, which were sent in for our photography contest - see the winner's names here. Thousands of individual entries can also be accessed via the 27-page index at the back of the book.
A percentage of the profits of Know-it-all passport are being donated to the Alzheimer’s Association, another reason to continue to purchase the new edition!
So don’t forget to bring your old copy to Expat-Expo (www.expat-expo.info/Geneva.html) and take advantage of this great offer, which lasts for one day only on Sunday 10 October!
Moving to a new city with a new language and culture can be an overwhelming experience. Among the many challenges facing expats is finding high quality medical care for the whole family.DOC in the CITY (DOC) is a comprehensive and free medical service that provides access to a network of over 100 medical care professionals, and which was put in place to specifically address the needs of expatriates in Geneva by offering advice in both French and English.
Set up 18 months ago by pediatrician/sports med specialist, Dr Marc Kaplun, DOC is managed out of one office and provides “one phone call access” for all of your medical requirements: general practitioners, pediatricians, OB/GYNs, ophthalmologists, dentists, pharmacists, specialists etc. In the case of emergency or extreme difficulty, DOC will even arrange a visit to your home.
According to Dr Kaplun, DOC will ensure that patients are able to see a GP within 2 days or a specialist within 5 days, and will arrange for all bills from attending doctors and/or medical facilities to be sent directly to DOC. Upon verification, the bills are then forwarded directly to your insurance company, with a copy to you. Providing your insurer provides worldwide coverage, you will incur no out-of-pocket expenses. All other services (advice, referrals, etc) are free of charge.
DOC can also centralize all of your families’ medical records so that when it's time to move on or return to your home country, they will provide your records on a USB key.
For more information or to set up an appointment, you should call DOC in the CITY on 022 789 8000 or visit the comprehensive website, www.docinthecity.ch. The site is provided in both French and English and includes useful information on prescription drugs, duty chemists and vaccinations, as well as advice for travelers.
In response to demand from our visitors, knowitall.ch has launched two new sections, which we think you will find useful!
Local Activities is a new area of the site, dedicated to helping you find the best courses, camps and classes for adults or children. In addition to a new Search Activities function that allows you to look-up activities in your area, we have added a new Activities Calendar, where you can compare different activities all on one screen!
Since this is an entirely new initiative that relies on input from you, we urgently request you send us details of any classes, courses or camps you are organizing in the coming months. Click here to find out more about the different options available to you.
Local Holidays is a useful addition to the site, helping you to plan your activities around important public and school holidays. Given the huge discrepancies in holidays, not only between Switzerland and France but also between different cantons and departments within these countries, we’re sure you’ll be coming back frequently to this area of the site! Click here to find out more or go straight to our Holidays Calendar.
These two new calendars are offered in conjunction with our highly successuful Events Calendar, which features hundreds of events, carefully categorised to allow you to look up information as quickly as possible. Click on the calendars in the left hand column to go straight to the calendar of your choice or fill out one of the forms below to submit your event or activity to the site:
- Submit event form
- Submit activity form (free entry - ensures your listing will appear in our new Search Activities function)
- Submit activity form (subscription only - provides you with a highlighted listing in Search Activities, your own Personal Page and detailed entries in the Activities Calendar for one year)
The following photos show the Winners and Runners-up for the AMATEUR PHOTO COMPETITION FOR KNOW-IT-ALL PASSPORT® 2011/2012.
With over 250 entries, there was a fantastic choice so we would also like to show some that almost made it into the book! The first section shows the Winners, and the second shows the Runners-up photos and how they would have looked if they had been printed in the book.
Click on each of the photos to see an enlarged view.
