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Overcoming obstacles
- Conflict
Palestine and Israel
Jul 2024
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![A group of smiling young adults stand posed while wrapped in flags from various nations.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Group%20-%20flags_1.jpg)
A season of growing and learning
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
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![An MCC staff member observes workers packing emergency food packages in Amman, Jordan.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/podcast%20thumbnail.jpg)
Behind-the-scenes with emergency relief / Bruce Guenther
Palestine and Israel + 5 more
Jul 2024
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![A portrait of two-year-old Basthian Raul Alborta Rodriguez makes a game of rolling a tire at Samuelito Daycare in Santa Cruz, Bolivia](/sites/default/files/2024-06/RS132619_2022_0113_07493600.jpg)
Education impact report - Summer 2024
- Education
Bolivia + 1 more
Jul 2024
Impact report
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![Al-Najd Developmental Forum staff distribute emergency food that has just arrived in Gaza for distribution to families. The shipment arrived on March 19 and was distributed on March 23. *Names withheld for security reasons.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS135147_PSE20240323_gaza_dist_al_016.jpeg)
Relief impact report - Summer 2024
- Disaster response
Palestine and Israel + 1 more
Jul 2024
Impact report
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![Nyiranshuti Atanaziya speaks with MCC staff at Zambia's Meheba Refugee Settlement Camp.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS132829_Copy%20of%20IMG_2445_hpr.jpg)
Material resources impact report - Summer 2024
Zambia + 2 more
Jul 2024
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MCC responds to disastrous floods in Burundi with local partners
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Disaster response
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Burundi
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Declaración del CCM en respuesta a la carta abierta
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Canada + 1 more
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News
newspaper
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The path to peace
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) + 2 more
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A reconciliation-centered foreign policy
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) + 2 more
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What does peace need to thrive?
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Peace
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Colombia
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One letter and an advocacy win? Is that possible?
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Poverty Reduction
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Canada
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![Graphic of green leaves with words Tending Tomorrow: Courageous Change for People and Planet](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/TendingTomorrow_600x600.jpg.webp?itok=BpOg0Cy0)
Ep 26 - Tending Tomorrow with Leah-Reesor-Keller
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Climate Change
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Ontario
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Podcast/audio
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Threads – Seek program unites young adults in culture and faith in Cambodia
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Manitoba + 1 more
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Podcast/audio
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Connecting students in Chad and Pennsylvania
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Education
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Pennsylvania + 1 more
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Story
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A place to call home
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Alberta
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Story
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Planting the seeds of a life of giving
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United States
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World leaders fail to act as Israeli invasion of Rafah worsens humanitarian catastrophe
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Disaster response
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Palestine and Israel
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News
newspaper
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