Latest issue: begegnen 4/2021
How we work to protect the planet in our projects
In our March issue, people from our partner countries tell how climate change is affecting their lives. For example, Mariam in Tanzania, who is suffering from hunger due to persistent drought. People also report on how they are counteracting climate change. Mariam will plant neem and moringa trees, in Cameroon students at a theological college are developing innovative solutions for dealing with waste, and in Nigeria women are learning to make resource-saving stoves themselves.
Also in this issue: a report on the Alfalit literacy program in Peru, a portrait of our Africa youth coordinator Abiud Dikasa, and other news from our projects.
Mission Press Cooperative
Mission 21 works together with five other mission organisations in Germany and Austria. Together we form the Mission Press Cooperative (Kooperation Missionspresse). All the magazines of these mission organisations - including "begegnen" - are accessible online in an app, a digital magazine kiosk. In the magazine "Eine Welt" you will find articles on the topic of mission and ecumenism, which have previously also appeared in our magazine "Auftrag". In future, however, you will also find selected articles from this cooperation online on our website in the "News" section.
Digital magazine kiosk (partly for a fee): App.missionspresse.org or via app, keyword missionpress
Annual Report and Financial Report
The Annual Report provides information about Mission 21's work and our principles, and it shows how we applied those principles during the year under review. It includes the annual financial statement together with details about the origin and use of funds. Key donor groups are mentioned by name. The Report also includes information about the mission organisation's structure and governing bodies, together with a brief portrait of Mission 21. The Annual Report is published every June to coincide with Mission 21's international Mission Synod.
Financial Reports
► 2019 Financial Report (German)
Project Directory
The Project Directory provides an overview of the development cooperation work of these Swiss relief organisations: Mission 21, Bread for All, the Relief Organization of the Protestant Churches in Switzerland (HEKS), and DM-échange et mission (the Protestant mission organisation in French-speaking Switzerland). The Directory presents the country programmes and local partner organisations, accompanied by background information about the political, economic and social conditions in each country. To complete the overview, there is information about the individual projects and donations. The Project Directory is updated each year and is available free of charge.
► Download the 2021 Project Directory as a PDF (German)
Circular letters
Mission 21's international co-workers posted to partner churches and organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America report at regular intervals. Their circular letters (in German) afford personal insights into projects on the ground.
► All circular letters (German)