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Stories bring our work to life.
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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![Charles, third from right, ice skates with the staff and children from Living Works’ after-school program.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/1e39226e-6f8e-4513-bdb3-fab4556a3eaf.jpg.webp?itok=IWOuTHc_)
Exciting, nerve-wracking, amazing, enriching
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Illinois + 1 more
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![Odhiambo puts his skills to use on the construction of a house in Iowa, Louisiana, that was badly damaged during hurricanes Delta and Laura. He has worked on several different houses in areas including Jennings, Welsh and Iowa, Louisiana.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/8a728401-3bf0-4682-babf-e9442b588f4a.jpg.webp?itok=TNVJ7Ni0)
Building homes, breaking boundaries
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Disaster response
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Louisiana + 1 more
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Story
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![A Bolivian farmer stands with his back to the camera. He is holding onions behind is back.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs115879_img_1376-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=n6uIZrvH)
Changing weather, changing lives
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Climate Change
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Bangladesh + 13 more
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Publication
book
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![Hands holding grain stocks](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_new_way_to_grow_cover_photo.jpg.webp?itok=TXP3Wz_9)
A new way to grow
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Food
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India + 5 more
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Publication
book
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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
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Kenya
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![A young Kenyan student stands in front of a chalkboard. She is wearing a school uniform sweater with a yellow collar.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/Kenya.png.webp?itok=ltkW2GG-)
Reusable sanitary pads help keep girls in school in Kenya
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Education, Health
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Kenya
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Video story
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