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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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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
Podcast/audio
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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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![group of students in Chad](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-05/RS135034_TCD2024_northkamen_rb_02_copy_scr.jpg.webp?itok=Av7S0Kq0)
Connecting students in Chad and Pennsylvania
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Education
Location
Pennsylvania + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
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![A woman stands in front of a bookcase](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Mary%20Laat%20_2%2016-9.jpg.webp?itok=T6BljQBf)
A girl called Ding
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Education
Location
South Sudan
Date
Media Type
Story
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![From left: Eric Bendfeldt, Mary Bendfeldt and Hulda Sharon watch an NCAA college football game at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/7049b25a-f205-4fd8-abfc-cc33d6d403ec.jpg.webp?itok=esuIzxgZ)
Old memories and new memories
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Education
Location
Virginia
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Ingrid Laan, Aline Wielenga and Sjoerd Huese, and Erik Husslage (front), IVEP participants 1986-87 from the Netherlands together in Munster, Germany, in October 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/6994d6e0-7820-4a00-b78c-67cbe41be42b.jpg.webp?itok=Lw3n0GMg)
IVEP reunion: A journey across continents, cultures and decades
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Education
Location
Europe
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Picture of Amida Yunis James, student at Rumbek Comboni Primary School, holds her new dignity kit and school kit she just recieved.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/MediaSpace_SouthSudan_Resouce%20ID%20129093.jpg.webp?itok=owcLPRNq)
General impact report - Winter 2024
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Education
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![Rebecca Amok Marial, student at Saint Mary’s Primary School in South Sudan, holds her MCC school kit filled with pencils, paper and other essential items she needs to learn.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS127510_SSD202304_loreto_rumbek_dl_054.jpg.webp?itok=U8dON2dA)
Education impact report - Winter 2024
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Education
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![Adonis Kodjihiti engages with students during break at Esperanza Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/Adonis%20serving%20refreshements%20for%20the%20break%20during%20classes.jpg.webp?itok=eTpDV4-E)
A valuable addition of an IVEP participant to an educational service program
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Migration and Refugees, Education
Location
Maryland
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Drawn picture of a tree with green pasted leaf cutouts](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/MicrosoftTeams-image%20-%202023-11-10T111022.949_0.png.webp?itok=Zgz-8sxn)
Planting New Seeds
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Education
Location
California
Date
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![Millicent Teresa Otieno, 42, Loreto Rumbek School sewing instructor, holds an example of the reusable menstrual pad finished by the school dignity kit sewing project.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/DSC02930.jpg.webp?itok=dOhs5XMk)
Sewing dignity in South Sudan
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Education
Location
South Sudan
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A woman standing in a room with a group of children sitting at a table](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-10/RS131858_YAMEN%20story%20photo-scale-4_00x.jpg.webp?itok=4kLwS1KB)
Meeting Jesus in another culture
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Education
Location
Bolivia
Date
Media Type
Story
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Dignity kits part 2: Sewing for home / Rebecca Deng
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Health, Education
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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Keeping girls in school with dignity kits in South Sudan
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Education, Health
Location
South Sudan
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Media Type
Video story
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