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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.
Lean in and read personal accounts of resilience and hope.
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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
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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
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Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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From soil to solidarity
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- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
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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
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MCC program in Appalachia changes name
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Poverty Reduction
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Great Lakes + 2 more
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Depot MCC Thrift Shops donates $1 million to MCC in 2023
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Great Lakes + 1 more
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Exciting, nerve-wracking, amazing, enriching
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Illinois + 1 more
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Building a roof while breaking down walls
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Poverty Reduction
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Great Lakes + 3 more
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A journey of mutual enrichment and community support
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Peace
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Ohio
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Leadership development through Summer Service
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Great Lakes + 1 more
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Beyond Trauma Care
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Health
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Kentucky + 1 more
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Walking with newcomers
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Migration and Refugees
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Indiana
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50 comforters project: From spreadsheets to works of art
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Disaster response
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Ohio + 1 more
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Growing passion and leadership through Summer Service
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Justice and Equity
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Ohio + 1 more
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MCC Connections lives up to its name through Bill & Edna Ressler
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Ohio + 1 more
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Breaking stereotypes one quilt at a time
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Ohio
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