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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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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
Podcast/audio
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Story
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
menu_book
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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
menu_book
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
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Food
Location
Bangladesh
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Man in a field with a basket of gourds](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Websitethumbnail.jpg.webp?itok=EoQ4uIrN)
A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
Listen nowImage
Food
Location
Bangladesh
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A woman standing in front of lush green trees](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/RS136841_IMG_8433_lpr.JPG.webp?itok=HLT94qVk)
From soil to solidarity
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Food, Climate Change
Location
Puerto Rico
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Two children work on laptops](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-05/JudyandQusai.jpg.webp?itok=yLzMUA7Y)
Children get involved with MCC partner in Gaza to feed the hungry
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Food
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![person packaging food for distribution in Myanmar](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-04/RS134102_signal-2023-12-18-074144_024.jpeg.webp?itok=ZCwi1ZZs)
'Being riskless is not always the will of God'
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Food, Peace
Location
Myanmar (Burma)
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A person wearing a a vest with an MCC logo in a warehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS134050_20240222_113041_lpr_wide.jpg.webp?itok=7oqP3fmv)
MCC shipment of food crosses border into Gaza
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Food
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Story
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![a water colour painting of a mother farming while carrying her child on her back](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Bread%20of%20Life.png.webp?itok=mcpjTlr8)
Prayerfully Hoping
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Food
Location
Alberta
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Mary Nyashin Tsief (70) stands in front of her home in Rubkona camp for people displaced by flooding and violent conflict. She is accompanied by her two grandchildren, Nyamen Iuok Ram (age 5) and Nyawich Iuok Ram (age 3), who live in a tent adjacent to hers.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/20231025-DSCF3366.jpg.webp?itok=CnPEuC1V)
Food impact report - Winter 2024
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Food
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![Picture of Mok Samun demonstrates how she feeds her chickens with feed that she makes herself from ingredients that she grows on her farm.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS130382_DSC_0358%20%281%29.JPG.webp?itok=_HJANkQV)
Canadian Foodgrains Bank Impact Report - Winter 2024
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Food
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![table of Christmas giving project cards](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/1AD20143-0FB0-40C5-85D7-FB06E9683648-24445-000003E8DB9595C5.JPG.webp?itok=OHXVFWVb)
Threads - Dec 2023 Christmas Giving
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Food
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![Jason Schmidt (IVEP Supervisor 2022-23) at his farm, Grazing Plains Farm, in Whitewater, Kansas.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/jason.jpg.webp?itok=6x8yk7DP)
Cultivating friendship and community
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Food
Location
Kansas
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Media Type
Story
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![David Suh holds canned meat at the Material Resources Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/IMG_5904.JPG.webp?itok=Qh0lx3El)
"In the name of Christ"
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Food
Location
Pennsylvania + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
menu_book
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