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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
Story
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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
Impact report
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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
Impact report
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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
Impact report
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![An MCC staff member observes workers packing emergency food packages in Amman, Jordan.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-07/podcast%20thumbnail.jpg.webp?itok=CQnFTXK9)
Behind-the-scenes with emergency relief / Bruce Guenther
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Palestine and Israel + 5 more
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Podcast/audio
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![A woman stands in front of a bookcase](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Mary%20Laat%20_2%2016-9.jpg.webp?itok=T6BljQBf)
A girl called Ding
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Education
Location
South Sudan
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Story
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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)
General impact report - Winter 2024
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Education
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South Sudan + 1 more
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Impact report
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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
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Impact report
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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
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South Sudan + 1 more
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Media Type
Impact report
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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
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South Sudan + 2 more
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Impact report
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![Mother holding her infant and smiling](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/Infant%20care%20kit%20thumbnail.png.webp?itok=BpksO91x)
Giving babies a boost
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Health
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South Sudan
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Video story
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![Millicent Teresa Otieno, 42, Loreto Rumbek School sewing instructor, holds an example of the reusable menstrual pad finished by the school dignity kit sewing project.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/DSC02930.jpg.webp?itok=dOhs5XMk)
Sewing dignity in South Sudan
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Education
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South Sudan
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Video story
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Dignity kits part 2: Sewing for home / Rebecca Deng
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Health, Education
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South Sudan + 1 more
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Podcast/audio
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Giving babies a fair shot
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South Sudan
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Publication
book
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Keeping girls in school with dignity kits in South Sudan
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Education, Health
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South Sudan
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Video story
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![Anne Kuria holding a Dignity Kit bucket](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/WebsitethumbnailDignityKits.jpg.webp?itok=j3zBbz-a)
Dignity kits part 1: Impact in South Sudan / Anne Kuria
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Health, Education
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South Sudan
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Podcast/audio
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