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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
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
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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Responding to crisis and conflict in Ukraine
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Conflict
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Video story
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Undercurrents - Update: "Checkpoint" with Izzy Hawamda
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Disaster response
Location
Ontario + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A man sits in a classroom and talks. There are computers behind him](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/RS117069_UGA20220207_education_ml0205-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=uzAvDfaz)
Relief, development and podcast: Empowering refugee children through education / Daniel Ameny in Uganda
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Education
Location
Uganda
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Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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Becoming beautiful trees
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Education, Migration and Refugees
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
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Systemic racism in Canada's justice system
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Justice and Equity
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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Reclaiming Beauty
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Poverty Reduction
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Three Honduran men stand on a rocky hillside](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs117774_hnd2022_codeso_ac_020.jpg.webp?itok=kI6uWFt0)
Farming in the rain's shadow
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Food, Climate Change
Location
Honduras
Date
Media Type
Story
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A Small Gesture Goes a Long Way
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Arizona
Date
Media Type
Story
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Relief, development and podcast: Wisdom within Indigenous roots / MCC staff Ricardo Salinas in Guatemala
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Indigenous Neighbors
Location
Guatemala
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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Sculpture honoring the memory of Michael J. Sharp & Zaida Catalán
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Justice and Equity
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![A group of people sit in a hut listening to someone speaking out of view.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs77057img0970-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UAGs2QFY)
Disarming conflict through listening
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of people sit in a hut listening to someone speaking out of view.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs77057img0970-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UAGs2QFY)
Écouter pour désarmer le conflit
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
Pagination
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