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...

Simone Dollinger, Program Manager Latin America at Mission 21, gives insights into her work during her time in Bolivia and Costa Rica, about farewells and new beginnings and about the cultural differences in social relations in Latin America and Switzerland in the kath.ch podcast. Simone Dollinger lived with her husband for nine years in...

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...

Maria and her two daughters, like many women in rural Bolivia, become the target of violence. For generations, the men in their family have been abusing their wives, sisters, daughters. When the women fight back, they are only taken seriously at best. Mary is worse off. With the support...

What can churches and faith-based organizations do to ensure that Switzerland actually meets the requirements of the Climate Protection Act by 2050, namely to stop emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? This is what the newspaper reformiert. asks in its full-page front article in the July issue on Switzerland's "Yes" to climate protection - mission...

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....

Mission 21 is looking for curious young adults for the current Youth Embassy program. Who wants to meet people from three continents, go on a trip and experience new cultures, and expand their own intercultural skills? The call for applications for the 2023-25 program is open. Our international youth embassy program enables international encounters, travel across cultural boundaries, and the...

The church can benefit from exchange between generations. At the event "The World on the Sofa," four women from the Mission 21 network reported on their experiences as young women in the church and the challenges they encounter. Salome Hengartner sees herself as part of a world church. In...

Parched soils as far as the eye can see: this was the picture that Mission 21 staff encountered during their mission trip to Peru. What this means for the population is the subject of the new issue of our magazine "Encounter. There is a threat of crop failures that could even lead to famine. Our partner organizations are holding back with projects...

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...