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![Three men are engaged in a conversation](/sites/default/files/2024-06/BillJanzen2_1.jpg)
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
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![50 colorful comforters draped over church pews](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/comforters_on_church_benches.jpg.webp?itok=0vVBPbcU)
50 comforters project: From spreadsheets to works of art
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Disaster response
Location
Ohio + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
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![A group of people in a shelter](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/2k3a8536.jpg.webp?itok=aFEGZpo_)
À travers le conflit, la vie continue
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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Media Type
Story
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![Residents living in a shelter on the second floor of a former hospital in Mukachevo, Ukraine, attend a meeting. Margaryta (right), whose full name is withheld for security reasons, is an AMBCU volunte](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/UKR2022__ambc_el_2k3a8536.jpg.webp?itok=lKLcL0Yp)
Relief, development and podcast: Audio diaries from Ukraine / Emily Loewen
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![People looking at a hanging quilt](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/dsc08845.jpg.webp?itok=42QmLLUL)
"It has to be perfect."
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Disaster response
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Quilts hanging on a wall](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/just_quilts.jpeg.webp?itok=K0339Hv1)
Building connections in Idaho
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Disaster response
Location
Idaho
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Two women holding comforters](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs120034microsoftteams-image3-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=nehsVCd3)
Threads - Jan 2023 - "...For they will be comforted"
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Disaster response
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A photo of a colorful quilt made with squares and triangles.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/story-header-image.jpg.webp?itok=dJxaAJoZ)
The gift of warmth through a needle and thread
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A woman in a winter coat stands by the open truck of a hatchback car. Inside the car are piles of colorful comforters.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/elfrieda_tiessen.jpg.webp?itok=yckC_YbI)
Colouring a white winter
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Disaster response
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Drone photo showing flooded roads and homes from overhead](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/elkhorn_city_drone_footage.jpg.webp?itok=8ardekoI)
SWAP program changes locations in response to flooding and needs
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Disaster response
Location
Kentucky + 1 more
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Five gallon buckets packed with hygiene supplies](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs89149_can20180525_springfest_ms0067.jpg.webp?itok=LWPZKMxy)
Moving the needle
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Disaster response
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A group of people receiving cans of meat in Ukraine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS119265_UMAN%20-%20canned%20meat%20for%20cooks%20Ludmila%20and%20Valentina%20in%20Yahidne%20village_lpr%20%281%29.JPG.webp?itok=62W4rTC0)
Care and peace in a time of war
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![pair of beaded earrings](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/MCC%20-44.jpeg.webp?itok=4pFdCnFE)
Relief, development and podcast: Making decisions day by day / Checking in with partner in Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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