Ukraine is to receive 5 billion in reconstruction support from Switzerland over the next twelve years. However, the Federal Council wants to pay the first one and a half billion, which will be provided until 2028, entirely from the budget for international cooperation. Aid organizations are outraged. Mission 21 also deeply regrets the decision.

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...

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. Among other things, the current issue focuses on various projects that promote peace. The magazine "begegnen"...

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....

From Friday, February 2, the first podcast from young@mission21 will be available on all popular platforms. Mission 21's youth network is launching "Young Voices - An Intercultural Podcast", a series in which young people from all over the world talk about their everyday lives and share their ideas, wishes and challenges. With...

The federal government wants to support the reconstruction of Ukraine from the development aid pot. This has met with widespread criticism. Christian organizations are also calling for aid not to be provided at the expense of the Global South. The high-circulation newspaper "reformiert." prominently on the front page - and Mission 21 also has its say.

Attackers raided several villages in central Nigeria over the Christmas holidays and killed numerous people. Reports from our partners on the ground now reveal the extent of the violence and destruction: over 280 people lost their lives and around 450 were injured. Several thousand had to flee. Our partners report that help is urgently...

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...