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Overcoming obstacles
- Conflict
Palestine and Israel
Jul 2024
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![A group of smiling young adults stand posed while wrapped in flags from various nations.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Group%20-%20flags_1.jpg)
A season of growing and learning
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
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![An MCC staff member observes workers packing emergency food packages in Amman, Jordan.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/podcast%20thumbnail.jpg)
Behind-the-scenes with emergency relief / Bruce Guenther
Palestine and Israel + 5 more
Jul 2024
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![A portrait of two-year-old Basthian Raul Alborta Rodriguez makes a game of rolling a tire at Samuelito Daycare in Santa Cruz, Bolivia](/sites/default/files/2024-06/RS132619_2022_0113_07493600.jpg)
Education impact report - Summer 2024
- Education
Bolivia + 1 more
Jul 2024
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![Al-Najd Developmental Forum staff distribute emergency food that has just arrived in Gaza for distribution to families. The shipment arrived on March 19 and was distributed on March 23. *Names withheld for security reasons.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS135147_PSE20240323_gaza_dist_al_016.jpeg)
Relief impact report - Summer 2024
- Disaster response
Palestine and Israel + 1 more
Jul 2024
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![Nyiranshuti Atanaziya speaks with MCC staff at Zambia's Meheba Refugee Settlement Camp.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS132829_Copy%20of%20IMG_2445_hpr.jpg)
Material resources impact report - Summer 2024
Zambia + 2 more
Jul 2024
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![A Jordanian woman in a pink and white hijab](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Asma.png.webp?itok=kkX_0Qz2)
Holyland Institute for the Deaf and Deafblind
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Education
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Jordan
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Video story
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![A screenshot from a video of a young Syrian girl. There is next on the screen that reads, "The war in Syria has been going on for 8 years."](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/cfs.jpg.webp?itok=eyTZcE47)
Child-Friendly Spaces during war
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Education, Peace
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Syria
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Video story
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![A black and white photo of a wall in Palestine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-05/RS106370_PAL1987_03_12%20%283%29_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=_m_WK-m-)
Palestinian needlework and MCC
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Palestine and Israel
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![A black and white photo of two men sitting in a potato field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs104014_10.fw1_.algeria.1969-scr_1_2_0.jpg.webp?itok=G0iea6NK)
MCC creation care and sustainability initiatives over the decades
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Climate Change
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Canada + 1 more
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![Several people stand close together on a blanket. They aren't wearing shoes.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs51153_img_3847-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=kq72qU8f)
In response to blockades:
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Peace
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Canada
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Black and white photo of two women standing together on the deck of a ship. They are smiling.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Gunden%20Penner%204x6%20-%20Copy.jpg.webp?itok=Y0fTm42t)
Women on the move for MCC
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Europe + 3 more
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![Three Chadian women in blue vests](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs98478_colinvandenberg-1584-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=2M0eeMFV)
Water from stone
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Water, Migration and Refugees
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Chad
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![Objects like dolls, snowshoes and a pumpkin are used in the Blanket Exercise to illustrate the complexity of land issues.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img6341webedit.jpg.webp?itok=Wj_lVon0)
"Walk with Me"
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Peace, Indigenous Neighbors
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Manitoba
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![Two different footage side-by-side. The image on the left is man examining crops with three other men. The image on the right is the top a corn stalk.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/MCC%20is%20100.png.webp?itok=Bn17LK1m)
MCC is 100
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Disaster response, Peace
+2 more
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United States
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Video story
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![A black and white photo from the 1920s of farmers in a field with tractors](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/RS43372_Russia%20Harvest%20Amer%20Mach015-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=OKaKQudp)
Tractors for Ukraine
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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Video story
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![A close up scan of an old newspaper headline](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/elmira_vandalism_newspaper_clipping_1.jpg.webp?itok=aOF9Db_L)
Resorative Justice's birth in the Canadian legal system
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Justice and Equity
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Ontario
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![A Ukrainian woman places a colorful comforter over a bed](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs100831_ukr20190620_boardvisit_ms0279.jpg.webp?itok=bSYJEap0)
Fleeing war, finding hope
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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