Our Stories | Mennonite Central Committee

Meet the communities whose perspectives and experiences shape MCC’s work.

Hear how they’re adapting and innovating in the face of poverty, conflict and injustice.

See how we’re creating a brighter future, together.

A woman and man smiling at a food distribution in Zimbabwe.

118 stories

A group of Ukrainian adults and children stand together to take a photo.

MCC partners in Ukraine work to meet physical and spiritual needs

Disaster response

Ukraine

03/21/2022

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MCC partners in Ukraine work to meet physical and spiritual needs

A woman and two children walk down a road.

MCC church partners in Ukraine supply essential local care

Disaster response

Ukraine

03/08/2022

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MCC church partners in Ukraine supply essential local care

A Ukrainian man and woman stand together. He has his arm around her.

Message from Ukraine

Disaster response

Ukraine

03/03/2022

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Message from Ukraine

Volunteers “like a bunch of angels”

Disaster response

British Columbia

03/02/2022

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Volunteers “like a bunch of angels”

A young girl playing with a doll beside a dollhouse made of an MCC canned meat box

MCC responds to crisis in Ukraine

Disaster response

Ukraine

02/25/2022

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MCC responds to crisis in Ukraine

Three elder, Ukrainian women. The middle woman has a scarf on her head.

A prayer for Ukraine

Disaster response

Ukraine

02/25/2022

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A prayer for Ukraine

An older Cuban woman stands in a yard and holds two cans of meat with green labels.

MCC sends food and relief to Cubans in crisis

Disaster response

Cuba

01/06/2022

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MCC sends food and relief to Cubans in crisis

Apartment buildings destroyed from Beruit explosion.

Beirut explosion: one year later

Disaster response

Lebanon

06/29/2021

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Beirut explosion: one year later

Bill Siemens volunteers two days a week at the MCC Saskatchewan Centre in Saskatoon, cutting up old jeans and weaving the strips of fabric into small rugs that are sold to support MCC programs. The 70

Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry

Peace, Food +3 more

Syria + 3 more

05/03/2021

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Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry

A number of piles of folded comforters sit on different surfaces in a warehouse.

Comforters: from creation to distribution

Disaster response

Pennsylvania + 2 more

02/25/2021

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Comforters: from creation to distribution

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.

Keeping calm and shipping on through COVID-19

Disaster response

United States + 1 more

02/09/2021

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Keeping calm and shipping on through COVID-19

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.

Ingenuity at work

Disaster response

United States

01/14/2021

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Ingenuity at work

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