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![Two people sit facing each other, mirroring body language of hands pressed together in a Nepalese greeting.](/sites/default/files/resource-space/377874774_712420904260885_745544933749777228_n.jpg)
A journey of service with Mennonite Central Committee
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
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Your impact in Ontario - Summer 2024
Ontario
Jul 2024
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"Put a little love in your yard"
- Peace
North Carolina
Jul 2024
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![Ko’ona Saber, Kerry Saner-Harvey and Jonathan Neufeld sitting together on a bench](/sites/default/files/2024-07/20240614%20-%20Threads%20Healing%20Forest.jpg)
Threads – Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties, shows Indigenous reparations in action.
Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties websiteManitoba
Jul 2024
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Seeking Christ
- Education
Cambodia
Jul 2024
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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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![women in kitchener preparing soup](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/IMG_6457.JPG.webp?itok=d7oQPSKN)
MCC in Ontario
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Ontario
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![Picture of Amida Yunis James, student at Rumbek Comboni Primary School, holds her new dignity kit and school kit she just recieved.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/MediaSpace_SouthSudan_Resouce%20ID%20129093.jpg.webp?itok=owcLPRNq)
General impact report - Winter 2024
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Education
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South Sudan + 1 more
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![A picture of children in a community in North Achefer woreda demonstrate to visitors from MCC and partner Afro-Ethiopia Integrated Development (AEID) their excitement about having access to clean drinking water from a well built in January 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS124834_P9740850-hpr.jpg.webp?itok=Umyitpqu)
Water impact report - Winter 2024
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Water
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Ethiopia + 1 more
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![Mary Nyashin Tsief (70) stands in front of her home in Rubkona camp for people displaced by flooding and violent conflict. She is accompanied by her two grandchildren, Nyamen Iuok Ram (age 5) and Nyawich Iuok Ram (age 3), who live in a tent adjacent to hers.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/20231025-DSCF3366.jpg.webp?itok=CnPEuC1V)
Food impact report - Winter 2024
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Food
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South Sudan + 1 more
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![A headshot of Maria Dolores Perez Paez of Cuba in the foreground.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS126428_IMG_5636-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=OHLt6P5Q)
Relief impact report - Winter 2024
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Disaster response
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Cuba + 1 more
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![Rebecca Amok Marial, student at Saint Mary’s Primary School in South Sudan, holds her MCC school kit filled with pencils, paper and other essential items she needs to learn.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS127510_SSD202304_loreto_rumbek_dl_054.jpg.webp?itok=U8dON2dA)
Education impact report - Winter 2024
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Education
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South Sudan + 1 more
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![Picture of Amida Yunis James, student at Rumbek Comboni Primary School, holds her new dignity kit and school kit she just recieved.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/MediaSpace_SouthSudan_Resouce%20ID%20129093.jpg.webp?itok=owcLPRNq)
Material resources impact report - Winter 2024
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Health
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South Sudan + 2 more
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![Picture of Mok Samun demonstrates how she feeds her chickens with feed that she makes herself from ingredients that she grows on her farm.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS130382_DSC_0358%20%281%29.JPG.webp?itok=_HJANkQV)
Canadian Foodgrains Bank Impact Report - Winter 2024
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Food
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Cambodia
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![A person hands another person a 5 gallon bucket.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS127428_SYR2023_homs_relief_002-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=7Lx1sBZb)
General impact report - Summer 2023
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Syria + 1 more
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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
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El Salvador + 1 more
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![A girl in a white dress washes her hands in a bucket. She has a stream of water falling off her hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS125073_COD202303_water_jm_IMG_1869-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=X03EA5qJ)
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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![School supplies in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS123904_0Z8A3223-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=clVUEMZA)
Education impact report - Summer 2023
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Education
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Palestine and Israel + 1 more
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