{"id":5924,"date":"2011-04-03T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2017-10-18T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:21:05","slug":"toni-el-suizo-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/en\/toni-el-suizo-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni el suizo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/toni-ruttiman-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"Toni Ruttiman\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/toni-ruttiman-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/toni-ruttiman-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/toni-ruttiman.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Toni R\u00fcttimann, (Pontresina, 21 August 1967) is a\u00a0Swiss\u00a0bridge\u00a0builder who works in\u00a0Southeast Asia\u00a0and in\u00a0Latin America, where he is known as Toni el Suizo (Toni the Swiss).<\/p>\n<p>Toni R\u00fcttimann works independently alongside communities in need, using recycled materials and charging no fees.<\/p>\n<p>Companies contribute by donating their used material and local governments concede permits and help with transportation in recognition of the fact that the main effort is made by the population. No one asks for anything in return and the bridge belongs to the population who built it.<\/p>\n<p>The bridges are for use of\u00a0pedestrians,\u00a0pack animals,\u00a0motorcycles,\u00a0two-wheel-tractors\u00a0\u2013 but not for cars.<\/p>\n<p>In every country where Toni works, he builds up a small team of national welders and looks for one \u201cbridge-building partner\u201d, to whom he teaches his craft, and who in turn is able to perform maintenance duties on the bridges built.<\/p>\n<p>Toni has no home residence: he carries everything he needs in two bags. One for his personal belongings, the other for his laptop computer and a few tools for his trade.<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with local communities, he has built 760 bridges which serve 2 million people (as of August 22, 2017).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11001\" src=\"https:\/\/aguaplano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/toni-ruttimann-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni R\u00fcttimann, (Pontresina, 21 August 1967) is a\u00a0Swiss\u00a0bridge\u00a0builder who works in\u00a0Southeast Asia\u00a0and in\u00a0Latin America, where he is known as Toni el Suizo (Toni the Swiss). Toni R\u00fcttimann works independently alongside communities in need, using recycled materials and charging no fees. Companies contribute by donating their used material and local governments concede permits and help with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1377],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toni el suizo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Toni el suizo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/en\/toni-el-suizo-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toni el suizo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Toni el suizo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/en\/toni-el-suizo-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aguaplano\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/valeria.negro.39948\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/valeria.negro.39948\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-03T15:34:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-10-18T15:21:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/toni-ruttiman.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"424\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Valeria\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/aguaplano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@aguaplano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Valeria\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/en\/toni-el-suizo-4\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/en\/toni-el-suizo-4\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Valeria\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/e0d51319f591aa57c954b34762fbc31c\"},\"headline\":\"Toni el suizo\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-04-03T15:34:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-10-18T15:21:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/en\/toni-el-suizo-4\/\"},\"wordCount\":199,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aguaplano.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/e0d51319f591aa57c954b34762fbc31c\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Life is Beautiful - 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