The original name of this platform was Schweizerisches Hilfskomitee für die Kinder Spaniens (SAS), in German, and Comité neutre de secours aux enfants d'Espagne, in French.The Swiss Aid Committee was created in February 1937 at the initiative of Rodolfo Olgiati, secretary of the pacifist organization Service Civil Internacional (SCI), who promoted a plan to act in Spain and bring together the maximum number of Swiss entities to contribute to humanitarian aid, with the go-ahead from the Swiss federal government, which had initially been reluctant due to a strict interpretation of neutrality.

[2] The main beneficiaries of the aid were children and other vulnerable populations, such as the elderly and pregnant and lactating women.

SCI members who participated in the Swiss Aid included Elisabeth Eidenbenz, Ruth von Wild, Karl Ketterer, Irma Schneider, Ralph Hegnauer, Trudi Ketterer, Maurice Dubois, Elsbeth Kasser, Willy Begert and Eleonore Imbelli, and others.

[2] In 1940, the Swiss Aid adapted to the new situation created by the outbreak of the Second World War so it was refounded with the name of Swiss Cartel for Relief to Children Victims of War, originally in German: Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für kriegsgeschädigte Kinder (SAK).

[2] From 1942, the platform was transferred to the Swiss Red Cross, which extended their humanitarian action throughout France, using aid systems that had already been used during the Spanish Civil War.