Great Lakes, Illinois
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Estefany Sanabria is a third-year law student at DePaul University College of Law with a promising future. She was one of seven young adults from the Great Lakes region who spent this past summer participating in MCC’s Summer Service program. The Summer …
Pennsylvania, East Coast, United States
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… hosted numerous young adults through MCC’s International Volunteer Exchange Program (IVEP) along with his wife Bonnie …
Bolivia
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From Indonesia to Bolivia – YAMEN participant Arni Alice Paidjo describes her time in Bolivia, Santa Cruz through her five senses: Taste: fresh food (especially the meat) Touch: tight hugs and kissing the cheeks with sound Smell: sun on the skin Hear: …
Poverty Reduction
Ontario
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… of finding new life, new beginnings that our staff and volunteers are so privileged to come alongside.” … … For … like to get involved in this life-changing work, visit our volunteer page . *Last names are withheld for privacy …
Ethiopia, Cuba, Haiti, Uganda, India, British Columbia, Ontario
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… a special way to escape the blazing summer Arizona heat: volunteering with MCC British Columbia. These purposeful … and Linda have spent four summers since coming north to volunteer with MCC Thrift in Surrey and the Material …
Alberta
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… traffic, public transportation access and closer to the volunteer base. This location checks off all of those boxes. …
Migration and Refugees, Education
Maryland
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… for adult immigrants through use of professionally trained volunteer teachers. We have been very fortunate to have …
United States, Canada
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I’ve just removed my headset and stepped away from an MCC Crisis Response Team (CRT) meeting. My son is downstairs, warming up for his soccer game. But the pitch will have to wait. Right now, my thoughts are focused on the hectic streets of Bujumbura and …
Migration and Refugees
Ecuador
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… people file into the church’s courtyard. Within minutes, a volunteer brings coffee and cookies. The sun begins creeping … they are humans.” While the interviews are happening, two volunteers play with the children in a separate room, giving …
Disaster response
Zambia, British Columbia
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… get a comforter made by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) volunteers. Brave Heart Foundation has distributed them to … time to deliver them to the MCC office in Abbotsford, a volunteer will drive one and half hours to the car ferry, …
Canada
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… in the MCC world and to each of the nearly 30,000 volunteers who work with it across the U.S. and Canada every … local canning committees over the years in rallying the volunteers, sourcing the meat, the logistics–there’s a lot of … engagement activity, bringing in a wide diversity of volunteers. And finally, the stationary cannery will enable …