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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
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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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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![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/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-07/RS135147_PSE20240323_gaza_dist_al_016.jpeg.webp?itok=-R3xZnBM)
General impact report - Summer 2024
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Palestine and Israel + 2 more
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![Marie Jeanne Kudimuka, 65, stands outside her home.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-07/RS125558_IMG_0618.jpg.webp?itok=fk-S3W_k)
Water impact report - Summer 2024
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Water
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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![IVEP participants stand together in a grassy field.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Top%20photo.JPG.webp?itok=2AxdQRZn)
Freely you have received; freely give
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United States + 2 more
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![Melanie Mafinga, 53 years old, trader, center, resolved a financial issue that Beatrice Kulenga Makasi (not pictured) had with her daughter. Mafinga and Patience Tomboka, right, are members of the Wom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/_MG_0973.jpg.webp?itok=Do6zFuoe)
Call the peacebuilder
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Peace
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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![Displaced people working in the fields of Kanzombi, a section of Kikwit, cheer Jacqueline Kafuti, who holds bunches of cassava leaves.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_2174.jpg.webp?itok=Dvu09HH8)
First person: Jacqueline Kafuti
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Migration and Refugees
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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book
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![Germaine Kambundi, a widow and mother of five children, shows the walking path she and her children needed to use to collect water from a contaminated spring.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/COD202303_water_jm_IMG_9966.jpg.webp?itok=rZNfO0pw)
What the gift of clean water brings
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Water
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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book
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Welcoming IDPs with water in DR Congo / Reverend Kimbila
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Podcast/audio
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“With this water, there is a great change.”
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Water
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Water impact report - Summer 2023
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Water
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Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
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Impact report
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![A woman with her arm raised in a church building](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/euphrasie_minzambi%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=muVAgf9v)
À mesure que l'église et le MCC travaillent de concert la paix s’installe à Kikwit
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Peace
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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As the church and MCC work together, peace grows in Kikwit
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Peace
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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