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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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Statement on MCC’s Historical Entanglements with National Socialism
Location
Canada + 1 more
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs103987can20190825growhopems0111medres.jpg.webp?itok=ytghX9aV)
Germinating Conversations and the art of listening well
Location
Manitoba
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Check presentation](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/check_presentation_resized.jpg.webp?itok=aNSmAY9G)
Community support key to Ohio thrift shop's $1M donation to MCC
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Peace
Location
Ohio
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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Volunteers “like a bunch of angels”
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Disaster response
Location
British Columbia
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![A young girl playing with a doll beside a dollhouse made of an MCC canned meat box](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS114430_DSC03126-2_lpr%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=N98wxKeD)
MCC responds to crisis in Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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MCC's historical entanglements with National Socialism
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Justice and Equity
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Group standing in front of Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/mb_peace.jpg.webp?itok=gZccMIPM)
Crying out for justice
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Justice and Equity
Location
Alabama
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Two men sit near the railing of a boat. They are talking to each other.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/saucedo_and_kinney_3_mg.jpg.webp?itok=sb4t7rfc)
Strengthening racial equity
Location
United States
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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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
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Parliament Hill (Centre Block), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_2368.jpg.webp?itok=BP4evXxg)
MCC Canada sends letters to Government Ministers
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Peace
Location
Canada
Media Type
News
newspaper
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