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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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![Relatives of disappeared people in Mexico hold hands, forming a heart, during the December 2023 national gathering of the Movement of Our Disappeared.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Coraz%C3%B3n%20MNDM%202023.jpeg.webp?itok=NfaKnhX_)
Why U.S. gun sales south of the border matter
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States + 3 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![People who survived Hurricanes Eta and Iota and recived supplies to rebuild their houses from CASM, Comisión de Acción Social Menonita, an MCC partner.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Bajos%20de%20Choloma%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=wS3_4FtD)
Loss and damages is a climate justice response
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Climate Change
Location
Canada + 5 more
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Media Type
Story
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Relief, Development and Podcast: Pressure on top of pressure in Haiti / Conversation with Rony and Naomi, MCC staff in Haiti
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Climate Change
Location
Haiti
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A Bolivian farmer stands with his back to the camera. He is holding onions behind is back.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs115879_img_1376-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=n6uIZrvH)
Changing weather, changing lives
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Climate Change
Location
Bangladesh + 13 more
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Media Type
Publication
book
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![A portrait of a Haitian man in a blue plaid shirt](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/jean-remyazor-acommonplacefall2021.jpg.webp?itok=gFo8hi_m)
First person: Jean-Remy Azor
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Food
Location
Haiti
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![A close up of a man's hands holding a bundle of seeds](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/storingseedsforthefuture-acommonplacefall2021.jpg.webp?itok=cOyYa43q)
Storing seeds for the future
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Food
Location
Haiti
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![Hands holding grain stocks](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_new_way_to_grow_cover_photo.jpg.webp?itok=TXP3Wz_9)
A new way to grow
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Food
Location
India + 5 more
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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MCC supports mental health care for poorest in Haiti
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Health
Location
Haiti
Date
Media Type
Story
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