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This year, the proceeds of the Lions Drive will benefit Mission 21. For the traditional charity event of the Lions Club Basel-Wettstein, around 60 vintage cars drove up in front of the Mission House on June 10. Many of the strollers and passers-by who crossed the Mission Park on Saturday morning stopped in amazement at the exit to Missionstrasse. Because here...
The new building for the midwifery school of our partner organization in the South Sudanese capital Juba was opened with a big celebration. Thanks to the new infrastructure, 45 students per year can now be trained as midwives. Our long-standing partner organization PRDA is doing important work. South Sudan is in urgent need of better basic medical care.
The magazine "begegnen" is Mission 21's donor magazine and is published four times a year. The magazine contains information and stories about Mission 21's projects and the people behind them. The current issue is about, among other things, the inclusion of people with disabilities in Tanzania. The magazine "begegnen"...
Advancing global warming is fueling armed conflicts over resources and food. The newspaper reformiert. reports on the consequences for various African states - and, among other things, on Mission 21's support for the benefit of the population. For example, in Mali, Nigeria or Somalia, humanitarian disasters are taking place in which drought, dying livestock...
Why are the young women knitting in this picture? And who placed them in front of the camera? To "read" historical images, we often need additional information beyond what we see. This year, we are featuring some photographs from Mission 21's historical research archive that raise awareness of...
Already, the climate crisis is having a significant impact on the environment and the lives of people around the world. In our project countries, heavy rainfall and droughts are impacting food sovereignty. That is why Mission 21, as a member of the Swiss Climate Alliance, is working for more climate justice and thus on 18....
Numerous interested people were guests at the Mission 21 research archive on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Dr. Patrick Moser, archivist at Mission 21, showed original documents from the Mission Trading Society's holdings. These range from the beginnings in India and on the Gold Coast through the phase of separation of mission and trading society to...
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....
In the 19th century, small Switzerland became a major international power in trade. What factors favored this and what role the Basel Mission and the Mission Trading Society, founded in 1859, played in this process was the topic of the current Mission 21 webinar in the series "Mission-Colonialism Revisited". The historian Dr. Lea Haller...
What role do men play on the path to gender justice? Key people from Mission 21's international network addressed this question in the Positive Masculinities workshop. Action plans emerged to involve men more actively in gender justice work. "The issue affects every one of our projects and all of our partner organizations," said...
