Mission 21
Mission 21 is active in 15 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America as part of sustainable development cooperation and humanitarian aid for peacebuilding, education, health, food sovereignty and against violence against women and children. In this way, we are helping to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This worldwide commitment is combined in our work as an international learning community with programs for transcultural exchange and interreligious cooperation, as well as promoting an understanding of global interrelationships. Our offer is open to all people, regardless of religion, origin or gender.
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Our focus
Education
Thanks to education, people can shape their own lives and assume responsibility in society. Mission 21 is particularly committed to helping people from marginalized population groups.
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Peace
In many countries, tensions or violence are on the rise. Mission 21 brings its expertise in interreligious and intercultural peacebuilding to bear here and supports reconciliation and trauma work.
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Health
Mission 21 helps people in rural areas access medical care. We support projects that ensure the sexual and reproductive health of vulnerable populations.
Climate & Nutrition
Mission 21 supports projects promoting food sovereignty and climate justice so that disadvantaged people—especially smallholder farming families—can eat healthy, sustainably secure their livelihoods, and live in dignity.
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How you can support our work
With 50 CHF
For example, you can provide a woman with school materials for a year.
With 120 CHF
contribute to the training of a teacher, for example.
With 500 CHF
support training for nurses, for example
Cameroon
Cancellation of USAID funds: What this means for the people of Cameroon
The radical withdrawal of the US development agency USAID from several thousand projects worldwide made headlines around the world this spring. How does this withdrawal affect a country's population and healthcare system in concrete terms?
With this question in mind, we looked at Cameroon and our local partner organizations. In March 2025, for example, there was already a shortage of important medicines at Manyemen Hospital - which is dangerous given the widespread diseases and infections such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV. The economic, psychological and social consequences for patients and healthcare staff are also enormous.
Your support is needed more urgently than ever.
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South Sudan
On the Run in Their Own Country
The situation in South Sudan, where people are facing hunger, hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring Sudan, and civil war-like violence, is extremely tense. Fears of violent outbreaks are growing; even an attack on a neighboring village can trigger a mass exodus. As a result, many people are fleeing within South Sudan and, as internally displaced persons, are seeking shelter in places where their future is uncertain.
Mission 21 works with its partner organizations to Targeted humanitarian aid: by providing food and daily necessities, as well as medical care and access to clean drinking water.
Peacebuilding, reconciliation, and forgiveness are integral parts of Mission 21"s humanitarian aid. Even in acute crisis situations, we strive to strengthen dialogue and nonviolent conflict resolution. Read more about the situation of internally displaced persons in the December issue of our magazine "begegnen”—or feel free to support our work right now.
We are Mission 21
Mission 21 is a global community of partner churches and partner organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Together, we have been committed to a life in dignity for all people for over 200 years on the basis of the Christian faith. We provide sustainable development cooperation and humanitarian aid. In doing so, we offer opportunities to participate in the global church. As an international learning community, we create space for transcultural exchange and interreligious cooperation and promote an understanding of global interrelationships. We align our work with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals ("Agenda 2030"). In particular, we are guided by SDG 16+: building peaceful, just and inclusive societies.
Mission 21 is supported by the Swiss Protestant Reformed Church (EKS), foundations and political bodies, private donors and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Mission 21 is recognized as a non-profit organization and is certified by ZEWO and EduQua.
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