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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
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
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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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![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
+3 more
Location
Syria + 3 more
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Story
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![A group of women in South Sudan](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs111617_dor_gender_officer_explains_the_use_of_the_sanitary_pads_to_primary_8_girls-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=aXjSlhzs)
MCC launches new menstrual hygiene dignity kit
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Health
Location
South Sudan
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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![A woman smiling on a Zoom video call](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/ariannis.png.webp?itok=I92QQF4N)
Exploring public health around the world without leaving home
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Education, Health
Location
Indiana + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Ininew Friendship Centre Executive Director Susan Nelson (left) and Cultural Resource Coordinator Mary Jane Archibald.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/microsoftteams-image5.png.webp?itok=uIj5jFG3)
Planting seeds of hope and empowerment
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![Indigenous Neighbours icon](/sites/default/files/2024-05/Indigenous_Neighbours_Icon_Teal_Circle-50x50.png)
Indigenous Neighbors, Food
+1 more
Location
Ontario
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Media Type
Story
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![A city landscape with mountains in the distance](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/view_from_window2.jpg.webp?itok=EnQZ5Bd5)
The view from my window
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Health
Location
Lebanon + 6 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A woman in the DR Congo stands in front of a distribution of gardening supplies](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs110856_mrs_riziki_mpendacheko_and_idp_receiving_toolkits_for_agri_culture_activities_in_baraka_fizi_drc_from_oasis_of_culture1_0.jpg.webp?itok=zUffQvaQ)
Suffering on suffering
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Health
Location
United States
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Media Type
Story
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![A young woman with glasses and headphones speaks into the camera during a webinar on zoom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%205.png.webp?itok=iq-6mg7j)
MCC’s migration work in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala/El Salvador
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Migration and Refugees, Health
Location
El Salvador
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A group of Malawi women wait in a line](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs97768distribution1-womeninline-lpr0.jpg.webp?itok=307Yhhxb)
Clean hands and full hearts
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Health
Location
Malawi
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Media Type
Story
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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
Location
Kenya
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A portrait of a Burundi woman with a colorful scarf around her head](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/burundi_4.jpg.webp?itok=xzdFXsLW)
"We are strong now"
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Health, Education
Location
Burundi
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Group of three](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/haiti_mental_health_high_rez.jpg.webp?itok=vOw5C3L4)
MCC supports mental health care for poorest in Haiti
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Health
Location
Haiti
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Media Type
Story
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![A woman holding her child while a man measures the circumference of the child's arm](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/bfarmmeasuring_0.jpg.webp?itok=pB0YPmvo)
From malnutrition to strength in Burkina Faso
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Health
Location
Burkina Faso
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Media Type
Story
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