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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
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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
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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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![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
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United States + 1 more
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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 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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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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Story
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![A woman in a ball cap and a face mask stands in front of a table full of baked goods](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/50503398143_4973d64fa4_c.jpg.webp?itok=O6xfDKcN)
Virtual Relief Sales Exceed Goals
Location
United States
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Story
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![A family of four in the DR Congo walk together in a field. A child is on the father's shoulders laughing and eating](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs108161_cod20200225_agriculture_ml0275-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=HNV5d9Lx)
Into the next century
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Migration and Refugees
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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![A group of Malawi women wait in a line](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs97768distribution1-womeninline-lpr0.jpg.webp?itok=307Yhhxb)
Clean hands and full hearts
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Health
Location
Malawi
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![A young woman stands in a church sanctuary](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/img0796_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=jHiduvLj)
From school kits to Summerbridge
Location
Manitoba + 1 more
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![Children jump in and out of hula hoops which are laying on the ground](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs106791_syr20191009_cps_0400-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=jCibC9Eb)
Looking toward the future
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Education
Location
Syria
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Story
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![A black and white photo of a wall in Palestine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-05/RS106370_PAL1987_03_12%20%283%29_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=_m_WK-m-)
Palestinian needlework and MCC
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Palestine and Israel
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![A black and white photo of two men sitting in a potato field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs104014_10.fw1_.algeria.1969-scr_1_2_0.jpg.webp?itok=G0iea6NK)
MCC creation care and sustainability initiatives over the decades
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Climate Change
Location
Canada + 1 more
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Media Type
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