Education
Gyger studied 1972–1976 special education (ie education, training, raising and promotion of children and young persons with development impairments and handicaps) and psychology at the.
Gyger studied 1972–1976 special education (ie education, training, raising and promotion of children and young persons with development impairments and handicaps) and psychology at the.
She was co-initiator of the Jerusalem-Project. In 1969 Gyger joined the ecumenical community with inter-religious orientation Saint Katharina-Werk, Basel. On behalf of the Federal Department of Justice and Police she founded 1976 a therapy home near Horw for particularly difficult young persons which she led until 1982.
Subsequently she was nominated general leader of the Saint Katharina-Werk.
In 1986 she founded a project for meetings of the world’s religions and 1989 she initiated in a slum on the outskirts of Manila a school for the spiritual and political awareness of young people. After that they developed the project Jerusalem – Open town for learning of the peace in the world which is accredited at the United Nations and leads them regularly to Jerusalem and to New New York