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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
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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
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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
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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
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![Six women wearing ethnic attire stand in front of an arc of blue and yellow balloons.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Maria.jpg.webp?itok=5Xe7f8AZ)
God always shows His care
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Guatemala + 1 more
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![Students paint desks at José María Castilla School in Guatemala City.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs124085_0z8a1452_1.jpg.webp?itok=ryaR_qVF)
Love in action
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Education
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Guatemala
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Relief, development and podcast: Wisdom within Indigenous roots / MCC staff Ricardo Salinas in Guatemala
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Indigenous Neighbors
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Guatemala
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When faith and pain lead to service
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Migration and Refugees
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Guatemala
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Called to care, equipped to serve
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Guatemala
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Bill Siemens volunteers two days a week at the MCC Saskatchewan Centre in Saskatoon, cutting up old jeans and weaving the strips of fabric into small rugs that are sold to support MCC programs. The 70](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SK2011_05mrc_cb0159.JPG.webp?itok=yCkV3lAE)
Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry
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Peace, Food
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Syria + 3 more
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