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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
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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
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![Family of eight stand with an IVEP participant in front of a Christmas tree.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Zimmerman%20family%20with%20Innocent.jpg)
The nudge
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
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![Six women wearing ethnic attire stand in front of an arc of blue and yellow balloons.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Maria.jpg)
God always shows His care
Guatemala + 1 more
Jun 2024
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![A crowd of people stand outside a brick building](/sites/default/files/2024-06/PXL_20240530_100714452-1.jpg)
MCC responds to disastrous floods in Burundi with local partners
- Disaster response
Burundi
Jun 2024
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![IVEP participants stand together in a grassy field.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Top%20photo.JPG.webp?itok=2AxdQRZn)
Freely you have received; freely give
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United States + 2 more
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![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](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/_MG_0973.jpg.webp?itok=Do6zFuoe)
Call the peacebuilder
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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![Displaced people working in the fields of Kanzombi, a section of Kikwit, cheer Jacqueline Kafuti, who holds bunches of cassava leaves.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_2174.jpg.webp?itok=Dvu09HH8)
First person: Jacqueline Kafuti
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Publication
book
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![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/COD202303_water_jm_IMG_9966.jpg.webp?itok=rZNfO0pw)
What the gift of clean water brings
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Publication
book
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![women carrying a jerrycan](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/RDPcoverimagewide.jpg.webp?itok=W9eI_rVJ)
Welcoming IDPs with water in DR Congo / Reverend Kimbila
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A young woman carrying two buckets of water](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS125069_COD202303_water_jm_IMG_1789-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=5chBxt2W)
“With this water, there is a great change.”
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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![A girl in a white dress washes her hands in a bucket. She has a stream of water falling off her hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS125073_COD202303_water_jm_IMG_1869-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=X03EA5qJ)
Water impact report - Summer 2023
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Water
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Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
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Impact report
summarize
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![A woman with her arm raised in a church building](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/euphrasie_minzambi%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=muVAgf9v)
À mesure que l'église et le MCC travaillent de concert la paix s’installe à Kikwit
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Story
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![A woman with her arm raised in a church building](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/euphrasie_minzambi%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=muVAgf9v)
As the church and MCC work together, peace grows in Kikwit
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Story
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![A group of people sit in a hut listening to someone speaking out of view.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs77057img0970-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UAGs2QFY)
Disarming conflict through listening
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of people sit in a hut listening to someone speaking out of view.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs77057img0970-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UAGs2QFY)
Écouter pour désarmer le conflit
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of people sit in a hut listening to someone speaking out of view.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs77057img0970-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UAGs2QFY)
Escuchar para desarmar
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
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Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
Pagination
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