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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
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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![Two different footage side-by-side. The image on the left is man examining crops with three other men. The image on the right is the top a corn stalk.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/MCC%20is%20100.png.webp?itok=Bn17LK1m)
MCC is 100
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Disaster response, Peace
+2 more
Location
United States
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Media Type
Video story
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![A black and white photo from the 1920s of farmers in a field with tractors](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/RS43372_Russia%20Harvest%20Amer%20Mach015-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=OKaKQudp)
Tractors for Ukraine
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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Media Type
Video story
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![A Ukrainian woman places a colorful comforter over a bed](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs100831_ukr20190620_boardvisit_ms0279.jpg.webp?itok=bSYJEap0)
Fleeing war, finding hope
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A close up of loaves of bread](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs27010_bih20131105_peacebuilding_ms0060-lpr_0_2.jpg.webp?itok=EwIIGT_L)
'Bread, in God's name, bread'
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Food, Disaster response
Location
Ukraine + 8 more
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Media Type
Story
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![A black and white photo for the 1920s of children eating in a large dining hall](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs98894_russia_1922_kitchen_feeding-lpr_6_0.jpg.webp?itok=184nt_YH)
'For I was hungry and you gave me food ...'
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine + 2 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Two women hold plates of rice over a large pot of beans cooking on an industrial sized stove](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img_1499_2.jpg.webp?itok=bq6bcXXO)
Puerto Rican-style canned meat
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Disaster response
Location
Puerto Rico
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Cyclone damange to a roof](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs98854_img_8386-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=9QNBTG8L)
Food brings 'hope' and 'promise'
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Disaster response
Location
Mozambique
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A young girl pushes cans down a wooden conveyer](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/canning_2_year_old.jpg.webp?itok=K2CPYuev)
See what a day of canning meat is like!
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Disaster response
Location
United States + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Two women sit and tie a comforter top](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/karingerbermttramalanquiltinggroupwithelfriede-2.jpg.webp?itok=Ft1WpRMY)
Passing comfort on to others
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Disaster response
Location
Western Europe
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Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A person in the back of a trailer truck unloads five-gallon buckets to men standing on the ground.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs63811_13_1.jpg.webp?itok=g5xey1Vk)
Journey of an MCC kit
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Disaster response
Location
Canada + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Group of volunteers putting labels on cans.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS113041_PXL_20201111_162959768.MP-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=bbCv1nPa)
How meat canning works
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Disaster response
Location
United States
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Media Type
Story
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