Anabaptist World article about the open letter and petition

June 20, 2024. Anabaptist World publishes a short article about the open letter and petition. It reports:

Signers include Anicka Fast and John Clarke, service workers from 2020 to 2023 in Burkina Faso, and Kathryn and Dan Smith Derksen, service workers from 2006 to 2009 in Chad. Fast and Clarke wrote they were fired following a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, shortly after raising concerns about workplace abuse to MCC executive directors and a board chair. The Smith Derksens wrote that they were fired by telephone and that planned mediation was canceled.

The three other letter writers are not identified. An unnamed couple who served in Africa said they lost their employment after speaking out about health needs while pregnant. The staffer in Asia was fired within the last four years after using MCC’s confidential system for reporting abuse.

Read the whole story here: Former MCC workers allege abuses