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These featured stories highlight partners and communities that inspire, inform and drive meaningful change across the globe.
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![Two people sit facing each other, mirroring body language of hands pressed together in a Nepalese greeting.](/sites/default/files/resource-space/377874774_712420904260885_745544933749777228_n.jpg)
A journey of service with Mennonite Central Committee
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
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Your impact in Ontario - Summer 2024
Ontario
Jul 2024
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"Put a little love in your yard"
- Peace
North Carolina
Jul 2024
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![Ko’ona Saber, Kerry Saner-Harvey and Jonathan Neufeld sitting together on a bench](/sites/default/files/2024-07/20240614%20-%20Threads%20Healing%20Forest.jpg)
Threads – Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties, shows Indigenous reparations in action.
Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties websiteManitoba
Jul 2024
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Seeking Christ
- Education
Cambodia
Jul 2024
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Bill Janzen, directeur fondateur du Bureau à Ottawa, nommé à l’Ordre du Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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![An Amish buggy that has been painted with a mural](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/side_1_and_back_cropped.jpg.webp?itok=Ti7UBzpZ)
The Landed Buggy
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Indigenous Neighbors
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Ontario
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![An old woman in a black jacket and green shirt smiles for the camera. She is standing in front of a rack of clothes hangers.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/myra.jpg.webp?itok=2mGdTLGX)
Volunteer finds fellowship and fulfillment at MCC thrift shop
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Ontario
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![Two men stand with the duck they hunted. There is snow on the ground.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/northern_exposure_2008_walk_the_line_023.jpg.webp?itok=4t5NixT7)
Why living off the land is crucial - and nearly impossible to do
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Indigenous Neighbors
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Ontario
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![A packed refrigerator](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img-0335.jpg.webp?itok=aUwXWcUG)
"We can't afford to stockpile food"
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Poverty Reduction, Food
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Ontario
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![Shadi Alkhannous runs the take-out and delivery counter at the Alnoor Halal Food Market in St. Catherines, Ont., serving meals like shish tawook, chicken shawarma and beef kabab. He and his family hav](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Shadi%20Alkhannous%2C%20Ontario.png.webp?itok=Xw3waqTm)
Resettled refugees support from the front lines during COVID-19
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Migration and Refugees
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Ontario + 1 more
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![Ininew Friendship Centre Executive Director Susan Nelson (left) and Cultural Resource Coordinator Mary Jane Archibald.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/microsoftteams-image5.png.webp?itok=uIj5jFG3)
Planting seeds of hope and empowerment
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Indigenous Neighbors, Food
+1 more
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Ontario
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![A close up scan of an old newspaper headline](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/elmira_vandalism_newspaper_clipping_1.jpg.webp?itok=aOF9Db_L)
Resorative Justice's birth in the Canadian legal system
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Justice and Equity
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Ontario
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![An overview perspective of a lake in northern Ontario](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/img0694.jpg.webp?itok=7V0jC9X4)
First Nations and the human right to water
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Water, Indigenous Neighbors
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Ontario
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![Five people work on digging a garden](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/community_gardening_2.jpg.webp?itok=3AN4zzoK)
Community Gardening Kits
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Indigenous Neighbors, Food
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Ontario
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