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Stories bring our work to life.
These featured stories highlight partners and communities that inspire, inform and drive meaningful change across the globe.
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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
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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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![A selfie photo of a group of volunteers from the Toronto Chinese Mennonite Church](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/SOOP%20story%20header.jpg.webp?itok=UowvbvK9)
"Letting the light shine onto others"
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United States + 2 more
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![Odhiambo puts his skills to use on the construction of a house in Iowa, Louisiana, that was badly damaged during hurricanes Delta and Laura. He has worked on several different houses in areas including Jennings, Welsh and Iowa, Louisiana.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/8a728401-3bf0-4682-babf-e9442b588f4a.jpg.webp?itok=TNVJ7Ni0)
Building homes, breaking boundaries
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Disaster response
Location
Louisiana + 1 more
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![Dorcus Sibanda checks in guests at Skills Auction, a fundraising event for The Conflict Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/9ba63627-241d-4cf2-b48b-16af6a56b750.jpg.webp?itok=WT6eBfgo)
Our journey with Dorcus
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Justice and Equity
Location
Colorado
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Story
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![Jason Schmidt (IVEP Supervisor 2022-23) at his farm, Grazing Plains Farm, in Whitewater, Kansas.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/jason.jpg.webp?itok=6x8yk7DP)
Cultivating friendship and community
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Food
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Kansas
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![A woman smiling in an MCC thrift shop](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/graber3.jpg.webp?itok=JPQWs2nx)
Still thrifty at 100
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South Dakota
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![A woman stands next to a bike. Behind her is a wall of bike parts.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img_5592.jpg.webp?itok=KObI6TcR)
'A bike can change somebody’s life'
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Kansas
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![A young girl pushes cans down a wooden conveyer](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/canning_2_year_old.jpg.webp?itok=K2CPYuev)
See what a day of canning meat is like!
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Disaster response
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United States + 1 more
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