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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
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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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![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS124834_P9740850-hpr.jpg.webp?itok=Umyitpqu)
Water impact report - Winter 2024
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Water
Location
Ethiopia + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/20231025-DSCF3366.jpg.webp?itok=CnPEuC1V)
Food impact report - Winter 2024
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Food
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![A headshot of Maria Dolores Perez Paez of Cuba in the foreground.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS126428_IMG_5636-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=OHLt6P5Q)
Relief impact report - Winter 2024
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Disaster response
Location
Cuba + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS127510_SSD202304_loreto_rumbek_dl_054.jpg.webp?itok=U8dON2dA)
Education impact report - Winter 2024
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Education
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![Picture of Amida Yunis James, student at Rumbek Comboni Primary School, holds her new dignity kit and school kit she just recieved.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/MediaSpace_SouthSudan_Resouce%20ID%20129093.jpg.webp?itok=owcLPRNq)
Material resources impact report - Winter 2024
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Health
Location
South Sudan + 2 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![Picture of Mok Samun demonstrates how she feeds her chickens with feed that she makes herself from ingredients that she grows on her farm.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS130382_DSC_0358%20%281%29.JPG.webp?itok=_HJANkQV)
Canadian Foodgrains Bank Impact Report - Winter 2024
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Food
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![140 Bannatyne](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/Bannatyne.jpg.webp?itok=EUMJ5eMp)
Threads - Moved by a year of compassionate hearts and minds
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![Relatives of disappeared people in Mexico hold hands, forming a heart, during the December 2023 national gathering of the Movement of Our Disappeared.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Coraz%C3%B3n%20MNDM%202023.jpeg.webp?itok=NfaKnhX_)
Why U.S. gun sales south of the border matter
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States + 3 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![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.
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Rouler à vélo : une action pour le climat et pour la paix
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Climate Change, Peace
Location
United States + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![On October 17, 2023, Firas Hamlawi, right, a volunteer and Rifqah Hamlawi, center, a staff member, with Al-Najd Developmental Forum, helped distribute food packages to 35 families and bedding to 10 f](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/PAL2023_gaza_relief_adf009_HiRes.jpg.webp?itok=Op9M17cb)
Helping to help in Gaza
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Disaster response
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![Two women standing with three children looking at a horse and goat](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/RS125609_23-AMBCU-1%20hippotherapy%20and%20rehabilitation%20for%20children_HiRes%20%281%29-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=bc0lqqhv)
Addressing the emotional pain of war
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Health
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![A group of seven people sitting on a bench in Nigeria](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/RS49886_20150423-%7BGurku%7D-166-lpr.JPG.webp?itok=X445lR2F)
Healing when trauma builds up
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Health
Location
Nigeria
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
Pagination
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