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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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Church-based immigration legal services
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A young woman with glasses and headphones speaks into the camera during a webinar on zoom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%205.png.webp?itok=iq-6mg7j)
MCC’s migration work in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala/El Salvador
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Migration and Refugees, Health
Location
El Salvador
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A young man with a beard and headphone speaks into the camera during a webinar on zoom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%204.png.webp?itok=v5VUe4zt)
Church efforts to address immigration
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![Woman with glasses and brown hair speaks from dining room.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/Screenshot%20%28440%29.png.webp?itok=8MaokurX)
Asylum
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A young woman speaking during a webinar zoom call](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%202.png.webp?itok=8GFH0LEX)
Border realities
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A photo of 5 people taking a selfie together. The photo is shown as part of a powerpoint during a webinar](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%201.png.webp?itok=9wTLvpu0)
Immigration in times of COVID-19
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![Three Chadian women in blue vests](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs98478_colinvandenberg-1584-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=2M0eeMFV)
Water from stone
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Water, Migration and Refugees
Location
Chad
Date
Media Type
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
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Two Kenyans sit in their makeshift home](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Kenya.png.webp?itok=LZdVpVSL)
Climate change and migration
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Climate Change, Migration and Refugees
Location
Kenya
Date
Media Type
Video story
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When love and online dating meet citizenship paperwork
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Migration and Refugees
Location
New York
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A man and woman sit in folding chairs in a small office. There is a woman sitting behind the desk.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs91884_usa20180821_immigrat_fy_2625.jpg.webp?itok=Of3tu3K9)
New York Mennonite Immigration Program
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Migration and Refugees
Location
New York + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Kiernan Wright of Orrville, Ohio (left), who served in Quito, Ecuador through MCC's Serving and Learning Together (SALT) program in 2017/2018, helps a refugee family pack the stove they received. (The](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/ECU2018_displaced_008cc.jpg.webp?itok=v72rOgTY)
Reaching out to refugees in Ecuador
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Ecuador
Date
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