Thamarai is a club for personal development in Niederlenz. We are a network of people who want to get somewhere: professionally, personally, as human beings. We meet regularly, share knowledge and contacts and challenge each other. What we gain from it, we pass on: through donations and projects for charitable causes, in Switzerland and abroad.
WHY THAMARAI
THAMARAI (தாமரை)
TAMIL FOR LOTUS
The lotus grows out of the mud and stays clean. That is how we see development: you grow not in spite of your own limits, but through them.
Comfort, fear, envy, everyone knows them. Whoever works on them gets further. Alone that is hard. With people who want the same thing, it comes easier.
That is why Thamarai is both: a place where you work on yourself, and a network that carries you while you do. We get better so that we can pass on more.
We want to leave the world a little better than we found it.
WHAT WE DO
We discuss what is on our minds: technology, business, law, health, education, trades, philosophy, ethics, politics, current affairs. Contested questions too. Nobody here is judged, neither for a question nor for an opinion. Open, curious and as equals.
We read together, give each other workshops and explain what we are good at. Whoever goes deep into a subject passes it on to the group.
We open our networks to each other: contacts, experience, doors. Many jobs, assignments and opportunities are never advertised, they travel through people who know each other. That is exactly the network we are building. Anyone with a question about a career, a training path or a plan will find someone here who has lived it and gives first-hand advice. Whoever knows someone makes the introduction. And sometimes we simply play board games.
The more different we are, the more we learn from each other. That is why all languages are welcome. German is our club language, and single meetings are held in English as well.
EVENTS
Alongside our regular meetings we plan events of various kinds.
Some of them are public: talks, discussion evenings or celebrations that non-members are welcome to join. Others are reserved for members.
We announce public events here and on the relevant platforms. Members receive the dates of member events directly.
NEXT EVENT
A Mario Kart tournament on the Switch, Catan, Monopoly, Brändi Dog and, to finish, the big Werewolf round. Soft drinks and snacks included, places limited. Everyone is welcome.
Tickets on EventfrogGALLERY
19 September 2026
Homemade paneer, dough kneaded by hand, curry cooked and eaten together.
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PROJECTS
What we build up should not stay with us.
That is why Thamarai works for charitable causes, abroad as well as in Switzerland. One focus is education: we fund school fees, an apprenticeship or a degree for young people who lack not the talent but the opportunity. Alongside that, donations to organisations and projects in Switzerland and abroad are planned.
Which projects we support is decided by the board along fixed criteria, not along relationships. The suggestions come from the club itself: every member can propose a project. With every new member, what we can move grows.
OUR FIRST PROJECT
Our first project will support Elukids, an organisation that runs a preschool in a village in Sri Lanka. Through a partnership with Lankashop, Thamarai gets its own cashew tree there. It gives children in the village access to education and strengthens work on the spot: the cashews are harvested in the village and processed in Elukids' own factory.
Elukids' mission: 450 cashew trees. With that many trees Elukids can fully finance itself and work independently. We want to help get there. You can plant a tree of your own too, as a private person, with your name on it.
Write to us. We will tell you what is running right now and what comes next.
Support a projectBOARD
The board is five people, all of them volunteers.
President of the Board
«Your biggest enemy is your uncontrolled mind.»
Vice President of the Board
«Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.»
Member of the Board
«Kein Mensch wächst im leeren Raum. Wir werden zu dem, was wir sind, im Austausch mit anderen, und was daraus entsteht, geben wir weiter.»
Member of the Board
«Where law and ethics intersect, it gets interesting. That is where I want to grow.»
Member of the Board
«As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.»
JOIN US
For everyone who wants to work on themselves and to share their knowledge and their network. Origin, language, profession, age, education or worldview make no difference, the attitude does. Everyone is welcome.
WRITE TO US
A short mail is enough: who are you, where do you want to go? We will get back to you. Every path begins with a conversation.
info@thamarai.ch
PAY AND DONATE
Membership fee, event or donation: by TWINT or by bank transfer.
