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Meet the communities whose perspectives and experiences shape MCC’s work.

Hear how they’re adapting and innovating in the face of poverty, conflict and injustice.

See how we’re creating a brighter future, together.

A woman and man smiling at a food distribution in Zimbabwe.

26 stories

An MCC staff member observes workers packing emergency food packages in Amman, Jordan.

Relief, Development and Podcast | Behind-the-scenes with emergency relief / Bruce Guenther

Palestine and Israel + 5 more

07/18/2024

Podcast/audio

Relief, Development and Podcast | Behind-the-scenes with emergency relief / Bruce Guenther

Al-Najd Developmental Forum staff distribute emergency food that has just arrived in Gaza for distribution to families. The shipment arrived on March 19 and was distributed on March 23. *Names withheld for security reasons.

General impact report - Summer 2024

Palestine and Israel + 2 more

07/17/2024

Impact report

General impact report - Summer 2024

Marie Jeanne Kudimuka, 65, stands outside her home.

Water impact report - Summer 2024

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo

07/17/2024

Impact report

Water impact report - Summer 2024

IVEP participants stand together in a grassy field.

Freely you have received; freely give

United States + 2 more

06/20/2024

Story

Freely you have received; freely give

Melanie Mafinga, 53 years old, trader, center, resolved a financial issue that Beatrice Kulenga Makasi (not pictured) had with her daughter. Mafinga and Patience Tomboka, right, are members of the Wom

Call the peacebuilder

Peace

Democratic Republic of the Congo

02/19/2024

Call the peacebuilder

Displaced people working in the fields of Kanzombi, a section of Kikwit, cheer Jacqueline Kafuti, who holds bunches of cassava leaves.

First person: Jacqueline Kafuti

Migration and Refugees

Democratic Republic of the Congo

10/03/2023

Publication

First person: Jacqueline Kafuti

Germaine Kambundi, a widow and mother of five children, shows the walking path she and her children needed to use to collect water from a contaminated spring.

What the gift of clean water brings

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo

10/03/2023

Publication

What the gift of clean water brings

women carrying a jerrycan

Relief, Development and Podcast | Welcoming IDPs with water in DR Congo / Reverend Kimbila

Listen now

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo

08/17/2023

Podcast/audio

Relief, Development and Podcast | Welcoming IDPs with water in DR Congo / Reverend Kimbila

A young woman carrying two buckets of water

“With this water, there is a great change.”

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo

07/17/2023

Story

“With this water, there is a great change.”

A girl in a white dress washes her hands in a bucket. She has a stream of water falling off her hands.

Water impact report - Summer 2023

See your impact

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more

07/04/2023

Impact report

Water impact report - Summer 2023

A woman with her arm raised in a church building

À mesure que l'église et le MCC travaillent de concert la paix s’installe à Kikwit

Peace

Democratic Republic of the Congo

06/20/2023

Story

À mesure que l'église et le MCC travaillent de concert la paix s’installe à Kikwit

A woman with her arm raised in a church building

As the church and MCC work together, peace grows in Kikwit

Peace

Democratic Republic of the Congo

05/25/2023

Story

As the church and MCC work together, peace grows in Kikwit

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