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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
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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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Goats galore and more
Location
Lebanon + 5 more
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![A woman holding an infant receiving a vaccine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/RS127671_SSD202304_loreto_rumbek_dl_378-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=FoR-0UFk)
Giving babies a fair shot
Location
South Sudan
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Media Type
Publication
book
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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
Date
Media Type
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
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![An old yellow car is parked outside of a dated gas station.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-10/RS126496_IMG_6340-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=R0oIBjSY)
Cuba: A case study on sanctions
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Peace, Disaster response
Location
Cuba
Date
Media Type
Story
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A peaceful alternative? Examining U.S. sanctions policy
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Peace
Location
Cuba + 2 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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Beyond raised beds
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Climate Change
Location
New York + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A man in a high-visibility vest stand in front of a warehouse full of boxes](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/IMG_0176.jpeg.webp?itok=zSNWuvoU)
Finding new life at the Winnipeg thrift shop
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Manitoba + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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Leadership development through Summer Service
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Great Lakes + 1 more
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Story
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Keeping girls in school with dignity kits in South Sudan
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Education, Health
Location
South Sudan
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Rebecca Murereki holds an empty pail on her head that she uses to carry cow dung to her biodigester.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SAW_9079.jpg.webp?itok=SoGibhYv)
Le Comité central mennonite reçoit jusqu’à 15 millions de dollars envers son action face au changement climatique
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Climate Change
Location
Zimbabwe
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![selfie of girl in clown costume](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/school%20clown.jpg.webp?itok=bKfUF4GK)
Second chances
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Education
Location
Palestine and Israel
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Media Type
Story
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Pagination
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