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The Mission 21 Synod was held online this year under the motto "Sharing Power in a Decolonized World". It was marked by farewell and change: Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Blum stepped down after eight years as President of the Board of Mission 21. As a farewell, his work was...
On Saturday, June 22, Fredi Hirt was formally dismissed from the Board of the Basel Mission. This marks the end of an intensive and exceptionally long commitment to the work of Mission 21 and formerly the Basel Mission for Southeast Asia.
17 young adults from Africa, Asia and Latin America are visiting Switzerland from June 21 to July 7. As international youth ambassadors of Mission 21, they will spend two weeks in Switzerland with European participants of the Youth Embassy program. The two-year program enables young adults to get to know each other in digital and physical...
Topic of the current issue: Indonesian migrant workers often experience violence due to their vulnerable situation. What Mission 21 is doing about it.
Now it's definite: on 22 May, the Federal Council adopted the long-awaited Dispatch on the International Cooperation Strategy 2025-2028 - and is sticking to financing the reconstruction of Ukraine at the expense of the Global South. "An extraordinary situation such as the war in Ukraine requires extraordinary resources; the...
The Swiss news portal of the Reformed Church, ref.ch, asked three Christian aid organizations about the willingness of the Swiss to donate. Mission 21's peculiarity in contrast to other aid organizations becomes clear. Donations are declining among Christian aid organizations. This is shown by ref.ch when the portal presents the figures for the past...
A volunteer distributes a hot lunch to schoolchildren in the Pochalla region. Around 350 children receive a hot meal every day.
As a health advisor and medicinal herb specialist, Solveig Schrickel supports a project run by our partner organization SEDEC in Chile. In her new newsletter, our colleague explains how she teaches adults, children and young people about medicinal herbs. In addition to plant knowledge, the pupils also learn a lot about Solveig Schrickel's country of origin. "In Switzerland...
Indian researcher Parinitha Shetty has looked into the history of the Basel Mission in South India - and says that the mission's presence has shaped Indian society to this day. Parinitha Shetty, I have brought you this photograph from the Mission 21 research archive. Do you know the photograph? Yes,...
For the last time, our colleague Luzia Illiger is writing a newsletter from Isoko, Tanzania. She worked as a gynecologist in the country for three years. Now Luzia Illiger looks back on an eventful time: on her various fields of work, on her contact with the local population and on her busy renovation work. "Over the past three...