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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
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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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![Six women wearing ethnic attire stand in front of an arc of blue and yellow balloons.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Maria.jpg.webp?itok=5Xe7f8AZ)
God always shows His care
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Guatemala + 1 more
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![Students paint desks at José María Castilla School in Guatemala City.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs124085_0z8a1452_1.jpg.webp?itok=ryaR_qVF)
Love in action
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Education
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Guatemala
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Relief, development and podcast: Wisdom within Indigenous roots / MCC staff Ricardo Salinas in Guatemala
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Indigenous Neighbors
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Guatemala
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Podcast/audio
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![A young latinx woman drinking from a coconut](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/lynette_milagro-standard-height-2000px.jpg.webp?itok=54C_udh5)
When faith and pain lead to service
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Guatemala
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Story
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Called to care, equipped to serve
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Guatemala
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Bill Siemens volunteers two days a week at the MCC Saskatchewan Centre in Saskatoon, cutting up old jeans and weaving the strips of fabric into small rugs that are sold to support MCC programs. The 70](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SK2011_05mrc_cb0159.JPG.webp?itok=yCkV3lAE)
Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry
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Peace, Food
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Syria + 3 more
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