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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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![man holding sign "Hope is the only thing stronger than fear" in front of bookshelf](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Nader.png.webp?itok=rRxXjA4E)
Bringing hope in Gaza
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Disaster response
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Melanie Mafinga, 53 years old, trader, center, resolved a financial issue that Beatrice Kulenga Makasi (not pictured) had with her daughter. Mafinga and Patience Tomboka, right, are members of the Wom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/_MG_0973.jpg.webp?itok=Do6zFuoe)
Call the peacebuilder
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
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![three people hold large check for $1 million while crowd looks on](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Depot%20%241%20million%20check%20presentation.jpg.webp?itok=chOqeVdf)
Depot MCC Thrift Shops donates $1 million to MCC in 2023
Location
Great Lakes + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![From left: Eric Bendfeldt, Mary Bendfeldt and Hulda Sharon watch an NCAA college football game at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/7049b25a-f205-4fd8-abfc-cc33d6d403ec.jpg.webp?itok=esuIzxgZ)
Old memories and new memories
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Education
Location
Virginia
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Charles, third from right, ice skates with the staff and children from Living Works’ after-school program.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/1e39226e-6f8e-4513-bdb3-fab4556a3eaf.jpg.webp?itok=IWOuTHc_)
Exciting, nerve-wracking, amazing, enriching
Location
Illinois + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Odhiambo puts his skills to use on the construction of a house in Iowa, Louisiana, that was badly damaged during hurricanes Delta and Laura. He has worked on several different houses in areas including Jennings, Welsh and Iowa, Louisiana.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/8a728401-3bf0-4682-babf-e9442b588f4a.jpg.webp?itok=TNVJ7Ni0)
Building homes, breaking boundaries
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Disaster response
Location
Louisiana + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![a water colour painting of a mother farming while carrying her child on her back](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Bread%20of%20Life.png.webp?itok=mcpjTlr8)
Prayerfully Hoping
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Food
Location
Alberta
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Dorcus Sibanda checks in guests at Skills Auction, a fundraising event for The Conflict Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/9ba63627-241d-4cf2-b48b-16af6a56b750.jpg.webp?itok=WT6eBfgo)
Our journey with Dorcus
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Justice and Equity
Location
Colorado
Date
Media Type
Story
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![room of rubble](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/RS131538_3_2_00x-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=y4XmCD5k)
Threads - "We have the right to live. We have the right to dream."
Location
Manitoba + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![Ingrid Laan, Aline Wielenga and Sjoerd Huese, and Erik Husslage (front), IVEP participants 1986-87 from the Netherlands together in Munster, Germany, in October 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/6994d6e0-7820-4a00-b78c-67cbe41be42b.jpg.webp?itok=Lw3n0GMg)
IVEP reunion: A journey across continents, cultures and decades
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Education
Location
Europe
Date
Media Type
Story
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![black painted wall with words "rents too high" written with white chaulk](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/jon-tyson-Hl1eeC7D-Mk-unsplash.jpg.webp?itok=W34BhV8a)
Ep 24 - (un)affordable housing
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Poverty Reduction
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
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Men listening; men talking
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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