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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
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Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
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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
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![Family of eight stand with an IVEP participant in front of a Christmas tree.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Zimmerman%20family%20with%20Innocent.jpg.webp?itok=w__lv30f)
The nudge
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United States + 1 more
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Comforters, Corrections and Compassion
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Peace
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Zambia + 1 more
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Witnessing the seeds of peace blossom
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Peace
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Zambia + 2 more
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Growing in mind, body and spirit
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Education
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Colombia + 5 more
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Seed participants answer "What is peace?"
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Peace
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Zambia
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Video story
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![Zebron Mwale holds his badge to signify his Peace Club membership in April 2021. Mwale joined a Peace Club program while serving his sentence in a Zambian prison. He credits Peace Clubs with changing](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/peace%20club%20badge%20%283%29.jpg.webp?itok=aczweWrk)
Peace behind prison bars
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Peace
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Zambia
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Story
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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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A culture of peace
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Peace
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Zambia
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