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Overcoming obstacles
- Conflict
Palestine and Israel
Jul 2024
Story
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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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Community built stoves / Tariro Cynthia Mutsindikwa
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Climate Change
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Zimbabwe
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Podcast/audio
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![Rebecca Murereki holds an empty pail on her head that she uses to carry cow dung to her biodigester.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SAW_9079.jpg.webp?itok=SoGibhYv)
Mennonite Central Committee receives up to $15 million in funding for climate change work
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Climate Change
Location
Zimbabwe
Date
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News
newspaper
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![A man in Cambodia carrying a large bundle of grass on his head](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS122265_MediaSpace_Uploads-6466-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=2p2z6ChS)
Food impact report - Summer 2023
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Food
Location
El Salvador + 1 more
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Impact report
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![Portrait of clean energy engineer Tariro Cynthia Mutsindikwa from MCC's partner SCORE Against Poverty.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SAW_2175.jpg.webp?itok=9kPWBOFx)
Climate action from the ground up
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Climate Change
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Zimbabwe
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What good does it do to plant one tree?
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Food, Climate Change
Location
Zimbabwe
Date
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Storyteller recording an interview with men participating in a program from Zimbabwe.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS121676_CJK09904-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=c-Avmp2B)
Relief, Development and Podcast: Men Can Cook / Zimbabwe
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Food
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Zimbabwe
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Podcast/audio
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![A woman cooking outside of her home in Zimbabwe](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs120520_saw_8725-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=4TqBmp5K)
The powerful change that technology can bring
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Education, Food
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Zimbabwe
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Publication
book
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First person: Caroline Pugeni
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Education
Location
Zimbabwe
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![Patricia Nyandoro, 25 and her son, Taropafadzwa Blessing Shumba. They had both been rejected by their village and their family because Taropafadzwa had been born with spinal problems.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS120940_SandraJones-5.jpg.webp?itok=So2tIrm_)
Love for all who enter
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Education
Location
Zimbabwe
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Media Type
Publication
book
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Relief, Development and Podcast: Imagining better futures / Sibonokuhle Ncube on climate change and faith
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Climate Change
Location
Zimbabwe
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Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A man and a woman stand in front of a brick church](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/2018_-_sophie_revisiting_her_church_mpopoma_while_in_zimbabwe.jpg.webp?itok=9h6trwXq)
A little SALT goes a long way
Location
Zimbabwe
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![A group of six plates filled with a variety of food](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/jawanda_clemence_s_final_product_dish.jpg.webp?itok=Yxtlxzrv)
The great Mwenezi cook-off
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Food
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Zimbabwe
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Story
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