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Meet the communities whose perspectives and experiences shape MCC’s work.

Hear how they’re adapting and innovating in the face of poverty, conflict and injustice.

See how we’re creating a brighter future, together.

A woman and man smiling at a food distribution in Zimbabwe.

651 stories

Harrowing news from friends

Conflict

Palestine and Israel

01/18/2024

Perspectives and Viewpoints

Harrowing news from friends

Paul Quiring (left) served as MCC representative in Palestine from 1976-1978. In this photo circa 1978, Quiring observes the distribution of olive tree seedlings to Palestinian farmers in the West Ban

Gaza, catastrophe and 75 years of Mennonite witness in Palestine and Israel

Conflict

Palestine and Israel

01/17/2024

Story

Gaza, catastrophe and 75 years of Mennonite witness in Palestine and Israel

Relief impact report - Winter 2024

Disaster response

Cuba + 1 more

01/15/2024

Impact report

Relief impact report - Winter 2024

Rebecca Amok Marial, student at Saint Mary’s Primary School in South Sudan, holds her MCC school kit filled with pencils, paper and other essential items she needs to learn.

Education impact report - Winter 2024

Education

South Sudan + 1 more

01/15/2024

Impact report

Education impact report - Winter 2024

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.

Food impact report - Winter 2024

Food

South Sudan + 1 more

01/15/2024

Impact report

Food impact report - Winter 2024

A picture of children in a community in North Achefer woreda demonstrate to visitors from MCC and partner Afro-Ethiopia Integrated Development (AEID) their excitement about having access to clean drinking water from a well built in January 2023.

Water impact report - Winter 2024

Water

Ethiopia + 1 more

01/15/2024

Impact report

Water impact report - Winter 2024

Picture of Amida Yunis James, student at Rumbek Comboni Primary School, holds her new dignity kit and school kit she just recieved.

Material resources impact report - Winter 2024

Health

South Sudan + 2 more

01/15/2024

Impact report

Material resources impact report - Winter 2024

Picture of Mok Samun demonstrates how she feeds her chickens with feed that she makes herself from ingredients that she grows on her farm.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank Impact Report - Winter 2024

Food

Cambodia

01/15/2024

Impact report

Canadian Foodgrains Bank Impact Report - Winter 2024

Picture of Amida Yunis James, student at Rumbek Comboni Primary School, holds her new dignity kit and school kit she just recieved.

General impact report - Winter 2024

Education

South Sudan + 1 more

01/15/2024

Impact report

General impact report - Winter 2024

140 Bannatyne

Threads - Moved by a year of compassionate hearts and minds

Manitoba

01/08/2024

Podcast/audio

Threads - Moved by a year of compassionate hearts and minds

Relatives of disappeared people in Mexico hold hands, forming a heart, during the December 2023 national gathering of the Movement of Our Disappeared.

Why U.S. gun sales south of the border matter

Reduce trafficking of U.S. guns

Migration and Refugees

United States + 3 more

01/04/2024

Story

Why U.S. gun sales south of the border matter

Front to back, Laura Pauls-Thomas, Curtis Book, Jennifer Lancaster, Megan Hoffman and Matt Hoffman are participants in a 52-mile bike ride in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County on July 30, 2022.

The r

Rouler à vélo : une action pour le climat et pour la paix

Climate Change, Peace

United States + 1 more

01/03/2024

Perspectives and Viewpoints

Rouler à vélo : une action pour le climat et pour la paix

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