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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
Story
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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
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![A picture of children in a community in North Achefer woreda demonstrate to visitors from MCC and partner Afro-Ethiopia Integrated Development (AEID) their excitement about having access to clean drinking water from a well built in January 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS124834_P9740850-hpr.jpg.webp?itok=Umyitpqu)
Water impact report - Winter 2024
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Water
Location
Ethiopia + 1 more
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Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![People who survived Hurricanes Eta and Iota and recived supplies to rebuild their houses from CASM, Comisión de Acción Social Menonita, an MCC partner.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Bajos%20de%20Choloma%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=wS3_4FtD)
Loss and damages is a climate justice response
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Climate Change
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Canada + 5 more
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Story
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![Two baby goats](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/RS116482_UGA20220208_agriculture_ml0008-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=NK-oCadQ)
Goats galore and more
Location
Lebanon + 5 more
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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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
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A close up of loaves of bread](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs27010_bih20131105_peacebuilding_ms0060-lpr_0_2.jpg.webp?itok=EwIIGT_L)
'Bread, in God's name, bread'
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Food, Disaster response
Location
Ukraine + 8 more
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Media Type
Story
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![A large cement looking block in the middle of the desert in Ethiopia](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs90481_img_2927%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=0gv_kzX1)
How it works: Steam wells
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Water
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Ethiopia
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