SAM global

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SAM global
legal form Foundation, endowment
founding 1889
founder Fredrik Franson and Carl Polnick
Seat Winterthur , Switzerland
motto Changing lives with education
main emphasis Training and helping people to help themselves
method Personnel development cooperation
Action space China , India , Cambodia , Sri Lanka , Angola , Burkina Faso , Guinea , Cameroon , Chad , Brazil , Nepal , Switzerland
Employees 80 employees (2018)
Website sam-global.org

SAM global (until 2017 Swiss Allianz Mission ) is a Swiss Christian non-profit organization based in Winterthur . While the abbreviation SAM used to stand for Swiss Allianz Mission , since 2017 it has meant serve and multiply (German: serve and multiply ). SAM global wants to change lives with education and is active in the field of personal development cooperation. The focus here is on training in various areas and helping people to help themselves. People of different cultures and religions should be served holistically according to the example of Jesus Christ, so that they can experience God's love practically and pass it on to others.

organization

SAM global, headquartered in Winterthur, has branches in Ecublens (Romandie), France and Belgium . The organization employs around 80 European staff, a number of volunteers and numerous local staff. They are active worldwide in China , India , Japan (until 2008), Cambodia , Sri Lanka , Angola , Burkina Faso , Guinea , Cameroon , Chad , Brazil and Switzerland.

SAM global is primarily involved in the areas of basic and vocational training, setting up small businesses ( Business for Transformation B4T), medical work and health prevention, theological education and practice, improving livelihoods and raising awareness. In 2017, 1,236 students and 234 vocational students attended a school founded by SAM. 3,300 surgical interventions were performed in the medical field. 342 people were trained in theology and pastoral ministry. 42,721 people were supported to improve their livelihoods. The annual budget for 2013 was CHF 7.5 million.

SAM global is a member of the Working Group of Evangelical Missions and the Swiss Evangelical Alliance .

The German-language information organ that appears regularly is called SAM FOCUS (formerly: SAM-Bote ), the French-language magazine SAM Allons .

history

In 1865, the Inland China Mission was founded by the British Methodist medic and missionary Hudson Taylor . In 1889 he helped Fredrik Franson and Carl Polnick to set up the German China Alliance Mission . In 1896 the first Swiss, Ernst Fröhlich, traveled to China as an employee. In 1897 Héli Chatelain founded the Phil-African Mission in Angola. In 1902 a Swiss committee of the Allianz China Mission was founded. As a result of the First World War, all German missionaries were expelled from China in 1919, but the neutral Swiss were able to stay. Therefore, from 1922 onwards, the organization was only called Allianz-China-Mission (ACM). In 1940 the Swiss association Allianz-China-Mission was founded. In 1951 the last Swiss employees had to return from the Communist People's Republic of China, and shortly afterwards a collaboration with the Phil-African Mission in Angola was established.

In 1953 a new area of ​​work was started in Japan and in 1963 in Brazil. Because of the war of independence in Angola from 1961 to 1974 and its consequences, more employees were sent to Brazil. In 1967 the Alliance China Mission was renamed the Swiss Alliance Mission (SAM), while the Phil-African Mission was called Alliance Missionnaire Evangélique (AME) from 1968. In 1977 the employee Gandhi Marinova was kidnapped by the Angolan resistance movement Unita and only released in 1978.

In 1981 medical work began in Guinea at the invitation of the government. The SAM has been involved in Sri Lanka since 1992. In the same year, SAM and AME merged, but kept their names. In 1999 the employee Therese Fuhrer was murdered in Angola.

A change of strategy took place in 2000, since then the focus has been on project work based on partnership. Since then, various projects have been handed over to local employees and their organizations. The organization has been headed by Jürg Pfister since 2008. In the same year the SAM handed over its work in Japan to the Overseas Mission Association (ÜMG). In 2011 the aid organization Vision Africa (VIA) was integrated into the SAM, which made Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Chad the SAM countries of operations.

In 2014, SAM again received publicity because SAM employees in Guinea in Macenta , in the area of ​​the Ebola virus outbreak, continued to provide medical care and did not leave the country during the epidemic.

SAM has been active in India and Cambodia since 2016. In 2017 a project was started among migrants in Switzerland. In the same year, the SAM and the AME changed their names to SAM global, where SAM now stands for serve and multiply . Primarily with education and help for self-help, livelihoods should be improved and people changed.

literature

  • Martin Voegelin u. a .: 100 years of Swiss Allianz Mission. Gratitude, positioning, outlook. On the threshold of the second century. Swiss Alliance Mission, Winterthur 1989.
  • Klaus Fiedler : The Faith Missions in Africa: History and Understanding of the Church , Luviri Press, 2018, ISBN 978-9-99606-600-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website sam-global
  2. ↑ Willy Zurbrügg: Serve and multiply with love. How can one best fight poverty and hardship in developing countries? How can as many people as possible hear about Jesus and experience God's love in a practical way? The answers from SAM , Protestant news agency idea , Liestal April 25, 2018, p. 15
  3. ↑ Highlights 2013 . In: SAM FOCUS , 2/2014.
  4. ↑ aem.ch ( Memento from March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) SAM global at AEM
  5. ↑ each.ch SAM globally at each
  6. ↑ SAM FOCUS magazine. Swiss Alliance Mission since 1889. Winterthur 1/2014
  7. ↑ erf-medien.ch SAM as an aid organization at ERF Medien
  8. ↑ SAM FOCUS magazine. Swiss Alliance Mission since 1889. Winterthur 1/2014
  9. ↑ sonntag.ch ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) TV broadcast on the window for Sunday 2013
  10. ↑ srf.ch Interview on August 5, 2014 with Dr. David Leuenberger from SAM on the Swiss TV show 10vor10
  11. ^ Church & Society: SAM becomes SAM global , Life Channel, December 9, 2016