The project is based on an idea of Bernhard Durst[1] in the 1990s, supported by television host Günter Tolar, Vienna’s AIDS pastor Clemens Kriz OSsT and a committee of prominent representatives of Austria’s civil society.

It was carried out by Friederike Baca, Christian Michelides, Herbert Rausch and the self-help organization Menschen und Aids (Club Plus) [Humans and AIDS], and it was heavily supported with moral encouragement and financial means by Burgl Helbich-Poschacher from the Order of the Maltese.

[citation needed] Lighthouse cooperates with the Pharmacy Feldmarschall Radetzky, with the HIV wards at the Otto-Wagner-Spital (Annenheim) and at the Vienna General Hospital (4-Süd), as well as with the home care association HIV-mobil.

Lighthouse participates regularly at the network meeting AIDS-Stammtisch and took part in formulating the requests of the community on the occasion of the XVIII International AIDS Conference, 2010 in Vienna.

Nearly all inhabitants of Lighthouse are heavily traumatized by violence, abuse and tragic family constellations in childhood and youth.