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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
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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![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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![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
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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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
Location
Chad
Date
Media Type
Story
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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
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Story
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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
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
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
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
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
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
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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
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A close up of loaves of bread](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs27010_bih20131105_peacebuilding_ms0060-lpr_0_2.jpg.webp?itok=EwIIGT_L)
'Bread, in God's name, bread'
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Food, Disaster response
Location
Ukraine + 8 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A black and white photo for the 1920s of children eating in a large dining hall](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs98894_russia_1922_kitchen_feeding-lpr_6_0.jpg.webp?itok=184nt_YH)
'For I was hungry and you gave me food ...'
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine + 2 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Two Kenyans sit in their makeshift home](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Kenya.png.webp?itok=LZdVpVSL)
Climate change and migration
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Climate Change, Migration and Refugees
Location
Kenya
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Two women hold plates of rice over a large pot of beans cooking on an industrial sized stove](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img_1499_2.jpg.webp?itok=bq6bcXXO)
Puerto Rican-style canned meat
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Disaster response
Location
Puerto Rico
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A field of corn and maicillo grow side-by-side in field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs104502_20190831_113333-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=U6-VWR-a)
Vivir en armonía
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Climate Change, Food
Location
Honduras
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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