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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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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
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Threads - "We have the right to live. We have the right to dream."
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Manitoba + 1 more
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Ep 24 - (un)affordable housing
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Poverty Reduction
Location
Ontario
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Podcast/audio
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Community built stoves / Tariro Cynthia Mutsindikwa
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Climate Change
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Zimbabwe
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Podcast/audio
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Threads - Moved by a year of compassionate hearts and minds
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Manitoba
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Love is a house
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Migration and Refugees
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Saskatchewan + 1 more
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Threads - Dec 2023 Christmas Giving
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Food
Location
Manitoba
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Goatcast
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Lebanon
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Threads - Nov 2023 Welcome the Stranger
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Migration and Refugees
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Manitoba
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Podcast/audio
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"Everyone is entitled to dignity and safety"
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Disaster response, Peace
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Palestine and Israel
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Dignity kits part 2: Sewing for home / Rebecca Deng
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Health, Education
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
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Podcast/audio
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Undercurrents - Water Walking
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Indigenous Neighbors
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Ontario
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Threads - Oct 2023 Sam's Place: A place to belong
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Food
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Manitoba
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