by Carol from India „We are in this together!“ I have the feeling that this sentence has the power to unites the whole world. I realised it on 26th March 2020. Usually, the Department of Ecumenism in the Church of Dortmund and the Amt für Mission, Ökumene und kirchliche Weltverantwortung (MÖWe) conducts a very cool hangout for everyone. This hangout is known as Ecumenical Hangout (or Ökumene Hangout in Deutsch), it takes place once in a month in a pub in the City of Dortmund and everyone is invited. Many people join us; we all sit, talk, eat and hang out, discussing about ecumenical topics and sharing about church life.

by Josephat Seleman Hema from Tanzania, My flight back to Tanzania was just perfect, everything went well. I only noticed that the aircraft to Dar es salaam was half full and that made me sad a bit.

By Josephat Seleman Hema from Tanzania, I wrote this poem few days after arriving back in Tanzania from Germany. I was responding to the panic situation on the global Corona virus situation.

by Rachel Lee from Hong Kong, Sitting on the plane way back to Hongkong, pieces of memories pop up like bubbles in my mind.  I thought of the pillow and mattress that I used to sleep on a year ago in hong kong and the face of Matthias, my chief in ESG and the empty room at home and the laughters and tears shared with other UEM volunteers and the moment when I talked to friends in Hong Kong using Skype. Hong Kong, Germany, Hong Kong, Germany, Hong Kong. People and things are mixing and popping in my mind.

By Carol Naidu from India, I always knew what is racism all about but I never knew the exact meaning, the meaning of racism is much deeper, I never realised it until now, I was in my interim seminar in Frankfurt which was organised by DIZ (Deutsch Indische Zusammenarbeit) from 2/03/2020 till 5/03/2020. This is a seminar in which all the volunteers need to participate,