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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
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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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![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
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![An older woman with short hair stands in the clothing section at a Thrift Shop](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/julie_beck_at_care_share.jpg.webp?itok=ws--gq1B)
A legacy of giving back
Location
Ohio + 1 more
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Today's scapegoats
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Justice and Equity
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of Indigenous women play hand drums at an outdoor event](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/img_0106.jpg.webp?itok=2yIAY80r)
Celebrating the treaties
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Indigenous Neighbors
Location
Manitoba
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Media Type
Story
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![Peace camp participants](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/peace-camps.jpg.webp?itok=rTjzhJaP)
Equipping leaders at home and around the world
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Peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Story
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![An older woman stands near a sign posted on a window that says, "Welcome to crochet class"](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/fridaalzugaray.jpg.webp?itok=h-8bFL-Y)
Never too old to give back
Location
British Columbia + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
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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
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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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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![An overview perspective of a large group of people working on a makeshift assembly line on two long tables.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs85248_dscf3892.jpg.webp?itok=3X2w6dSq)
MCC Mass Incarceration Service Day draws more than 250 attendees
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Justice and Equity
Location
Pennsylvania
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Media Type
Story
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![A man in a green jacket stands with his back to the camera. He is in a field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Iraq%20prayer.png.webp?itok=xIVmSrPL)
A prayer for peace in Iraq
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Peace
Location
Iraq
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Media Type
Video story
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![A woman holding her child while a man measures the circumference of the child's arm](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/bfarmmeasuring_0.jpg.webp?itok=pB0YPmvo)
From malnutrition to strength in Burkina Faso
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Health
Location
Burkina Faso
Date
Media Type
Story
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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
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Canada + 1 more
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Media Type
Video story
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