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![Two people sit facing each other, mirroring body language of hands pressed together in a Nepalese greeting.](/sites/default/files/resource-space/377874774_712420904260885_745544933749777228_n.jpg)
A journey of service with Mennonite Central Committee
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
Story
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Your impact in Ontario - Summer 2024
Ontario
Jul 2024
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"Put a little love in your yard"
- Peace
North Carolina
Jul 2024
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![Ko’ona Saber, Kerry Saner-Harvey and Jonathan Neufeld sitting together on a bench](/sites/default/files/2024-07/20240614%20-%20Threads%20Healing%20Forest.jpg)
Threads – Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties, shows Indigenous reparations in action.
Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties websiteManitoba
Jul 2024
Podcast/audio
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Seeking Christ
- Education
Cambodia
Jul 2024
Story
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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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![IVEP participants stand together in a grassy field.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Top%20photo.JPG.webp?itok=2AxdQRZn)
Freely you have received; freely give
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United States + 2 more
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![Melanie Mafinga, 53 years old, trader, center, resolved a financial issue that Beatrice Kulenga Makasi (not pictured) had with her daughter. Mafinga and Patience Tomboka, right, are members of the Wom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/_MG_0973.jpg.webp?itok=Do6zFuoe)
Call the peacebuilder
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
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![Displaced people working in the fields of Kanzombi, a section of Kikwit, cheer Jacqueline Kafuti, who holds bunches of cassava leaves.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_2174.jpg.webp?itok=Dvu09HH8)
First person: Jacqueline Kafuti
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Publication
book
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![Germaine Kambundi, a widow and mother of five children, shows the walking path she and her children needed to use to collect water from a contaminated spring.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/COD202303_water_jm_IMG_9966.jpg.webp?itok=rZNfO0pw)
What the gift of clean water brings
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Publication
book
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Welcoming IDPs with water in DR Congo / Reverend Kimbila
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Water
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Podcast/audio
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“With this water, there is a great change.”
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Story
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![A girl in a white dress washes her hands in a bucket. She has a stream of water falling off her hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS125073_COD202303_water_jm_IMG_1869-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=X03EA5qJ)
Water impact report - Summer 2023
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
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Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![A woman with her arm raised in a church building](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/euphrasie_minzambi%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=muVAgf9v)
À mesure que l'église et le MCC travaillent de concert la paix s’installe à Kikwit
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Story
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![A woman with her arm raised in a church building](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/euphrasie_minzambi%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=muVAgf9v)
As the church and MCC work together, peace grows in Kikwit
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A group of people sit in a hut listening to someone speaking out of view.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs77057img0970-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UAGs2QFY)
Disarming conflict through listening
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of people sit in a hut listening to someone speaking out of view.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs77057img0970-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UAGs2QFY)
Écouter pour désarmer le conflit
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of people sit in a hut listening to someone speaking out of view.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs77057img0970-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UAGs2QFY)
Escuchar para desarmar
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
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Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
Pagination
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