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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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![Man in a field with a basket of gourds](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Websitethumbnail.jpg)
A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
Listen now- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
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![IVEP participant is crouched and feeding a baby calf with a bottle.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/image000000%281%29.jpg)
Seeing our lives through the eyes of an IVEPer
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![A group of women in South Sudan](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs111617_dor_gender_officer_explains_the_use_of_the_sanitary_pads_to_primary_8_girls-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=aXjSlhzs)
MCC launches new menstrual hygiene dignity kit
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Health
Location
South Sudan
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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![A woman smiling on a Zoom video call](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/ariannis.png.webp?itok=I92QQF4N)
Exploring public health around the world without leaving home
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Education, Health
Location
Indiana + 1 more
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Media Type
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![Ininew Friendship Centre Executive Director Susan Nelson (left) and Cultural Resource Coordinator Mary Jane Archibald.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/microsoftteams-image5.png.webp?itok=uIj5jFG3)
Planting seeds of hope and empowerment
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![Indigenous Neighbours icon](/sites/default/files/2024-05/Indigenous_Neighbours_Icon_Teal_Circle-50x50.png)
Indigenous Neighbors, Food
+1 more
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Ontario
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![A number of piles of folded comforters sit on different surfaces in a warehouse.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs111077_20190917_121343_0.jpg.webp?itok=hBoNDao5)
Comforters: from creation to distribution
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Disaster response
Location
Pennsylvania
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Media Type
Story
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![This mystery building, and the adjacent land, was the site of Henrietta Dismukes Hospital and Nurses’ Home, one of the largest privately owned African American hospitals in the country.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Henriette%20Dismuke%20Hospital%20Nurses%27%20Home.jpg.webp?itok=PewLr-p4)
History unveiled in Appalachia
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Justice and Equity
Location
West Virginia + 1 more
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Story
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![A city landscape with mountains in the distance](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/view_from_window2.jpg.webp?itok=EnQZ5Bd5)
The view from my window
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Health
Location
Lebanon + 6 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![MCC Guatemala/El Salvador staff and volunteers prepared relief kits to be sent to the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala after Hurricane Eta hit the country on November 4th and 5th, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_1445.JPG.webp?itok=YrBVgjHn)
Keeping calm and shipping on through COVID-19
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Disaster response
Location
United States + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A young woman in a face mask stands next to a wall covered with colorful learning materials in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS111806_Charnesha%20-%20horizontal-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=a37cFUJc)
Creating a second home: From cradle to career
Location
Illinois + 1 more
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![A group of people hold hands sitting down in a circle](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/1449672380-web.jpg.webp?itok=X_JKXUsp)
A renewed commitment to peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A woman in the DR Congo stands in front of a distribution of gardening supplies](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs110856_mrs_riziki_mpendacheko_and_idp_receiving_toolkits_for_agri_culture_activities_in_baraka_fizi_drc_from_oasis_of_culture1_0.jpg.webp?itok=zUffQvaQ)
Suffering on suffering
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Health
Location
United States
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Media Type
Story
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![A preview of quilts and other online auction items for the Ohio Mennonite Relief Sale coincided with a drive-thru food event in Kidron, Ohio, in September 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/quilt%20preview.JPG.webp?itok=yGG1ZO5-)
Ingenuity at work
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Disaster response
Location
United States
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Media Type
Story
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![A man wearing a black suit and blue tie sits in front of two flags.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/img-20200612-wa0037_0.jpg.webp?itok=16T8Ir7P)
Ziad El Sayegh on from symptoms to root causes
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
Pagination
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