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...

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...

Our colleague Daniel Gloor is a lecturer in biblical studies at the STS Theological Seminary in Sabah, Malaysia. He has experienced very special Christmas celebrations in two small congregations deep in the Malaysian hinterland of Borneo. He reports on this in his newsletter. In his current newsletter, Daniel Gloor also addresses a very serious topic....

For nine years, Angel and Simone Dollinger were on mission in Latin America with their daughter Alma - first in Bolivia and the last few years with Mission 21 in Costa Rica. They have been back in Switzerland since July. It is not a farewell to Mission 21: Angel works at a distance...

After a period of intense rainfall and flooded roads, things are getting warmer and drier again for Luzia Illiger, our co-worker in Tanzania. There is a lot to do. In addition to her work in the hospital and in health stations, the gynecologist also teaches sex education at various schools. She writes: "I hope to become something...

Daniel Gloor has been teaching theology in Malaysia for almost twenty years. His students at the theological seminary in Sabah (STS) are interested in teaching, but hardly active politically, says the international staff member of Mission 21. Quite different are the students in Latin America, whom he recently met during a stay in Peru and Costa Rica....

Solveig Schrickel works as a health consultant and medicinal herb specialist in Chile. As she writes her new newsletter, large parts of central Chile are burning. In the courses that Solveig Schrickel offers on medicinal herb production, women who have lost their homes are now sitting. In the midst of tragedy, it is touching to see solidarity emerge. Also in...

In the hospitals in Tanzania, auxiliary nurses without training take on many responsible tasks. They place infusions, inject antibiotics and stitch wounds. Luzia Illiger, who works as a gynecologist in the hospital in Isoko on behalf of Mission 21, admires on the one hand how they simply learn a lot from their colleagues. On the other hand, it is...

Simone Dollinger, who coordinates the theological education projects in Latin America for Mission 21, has been on the road a lot in recent months: Among other things, she traveled to an indigenous congregation in a Pentecostal church in the southern Andes of Peru and visited a Protestant church in Lima. One thing in particular struck her:...

Daniel Gloor works as a theology lecturer in Malaysia. The coexistence of different religious groups is a central theme in his everyday life. He teaches the subject "World Religions" at the Theological Seminary in Sabah and experiences there that his students are partly afraid to deal with other religions. They fear that studying other religions could...