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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
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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
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![Alsar Zarour](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/1D5A9739.jpg.webp?itok=oIbA80WK)
The newness of this life
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Migration and Refugees
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Syria + 1 more
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Story
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![A person hands another person a 5 gallon bucket.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS127428_SYR2023_homs_relief_002-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=7Lx1sBZb)
General impact report - Summer 2023
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Syria + 1 more
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Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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Relief impact report - Summer 2023
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Disaster response
Location
Syria + 1 more
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Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![A young woman standing in front of an art installation](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs123081_syr2022_harmony_ra_dsc03571.jpg.webp?itok=vAXTgy6o)
Creating and coming together
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Education
Location
Syria
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Media Type
Story
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After the earthquakes in Syria
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Disaster response
Location
Syria
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Media Type
Story
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From Aleppo, Syria:
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Disaster response
Location
Syria
Date
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![pair of beaded earrings](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/MCC%20-44.jpeg.webp?itok=4pFdCnFE)
Relief, Development and Podcast: MCC responds to earthquakes in Syria / Petra Antoun
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Disaster response, Earthquake
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Syria
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Podcast/audio
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MCC responds to earthquakes in Syria
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Disaster response
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Children running onto a makeshift pitch in a school yard in Colombia.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/RS118486_Photo%205-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=XDXgFkbB)
Growing in mind, body and spirit
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Education
Location
Colombia + 5 more
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Story
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![Volunteers can meat in a warehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs111948_us2021111_canning_hh_1.jpg.webp?itok=ZwdybbGz)
Canning meat for the world
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Food
Location
Syria + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
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![Bill Siemens volunteers two days a week at the MCC Saskatchewan Centre in Saskatoon, cutting up old jeans and weaving the strips of fabric into small rugs that are sold to support MCC programs. The 70](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SK2011_05mrc_cb0159.JPG.webp?itok=yCkV3lAE)
Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry
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Peace, Food
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Syria + 3 more
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Story
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Looking toward the future
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Education
Location
Syria
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Media Type
Story
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