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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
Story
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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
Story
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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's literacy in Afghanistan
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Education, Conflict
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Afghanistan
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Podcast/audio
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Undercurrents - Heifers: what are they? And why are they worth millions to MCC?
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Ontario
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Podcast/audio
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Relief, Development and Podcast: A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell
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Justice and Equity, Climate Change
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Canada
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Podcast/audio
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Threads - Mar 2023 - What is Advocacy?
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Peace
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Manitoba
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Podcast/audio
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Relief, Development and Podcast: MCC responds to earthquakes in Syria / Petra Antoun
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Disaster response, Earthquake
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Syria
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Podcast/audio
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Threads - Feb 2023 - Welcoming the stranger
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Migration and Refugees
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Manitoba
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Podcast/audio
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![Storyteller recording an interview with men participating in a program from Zimbabwe.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS121676_CJK09904-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=c-Avmp2B)
Relief, Development and Podcast: Men Can Cook / Zimbabwe
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Food
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Zimbabwe
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Podcast/audio
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![Residents living in a shelter on the second floor of a former hospital in Mukachevo, Ukraine, attend a meeting. Margaryta (right), whose full name is withheld for security reasons, is an AMBCU volunte](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/UKR2022__ambc_el_2k3a8536.jpg.webp?itok=lKLcL0Yp)
Relief, development and podcast: Audio diaries from Ukraine / Emily Loewen
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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Podcast/audio
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Relief, development and podcast: Peace pigs / With Mary Ilero and Sam Eibu
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Food
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Uganda
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Podcast/audio
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Threads - Jan 2023 - "...For they will be comforted"
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Disaster response
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Manitoba
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Podcast/audio
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Relief, development and podcast: Giving gifts of music / Girl Named Tom
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United States
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Podcast/audio
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Relief, development and podcast: Preventing and responding to abuse in the church / Jaymie Friesen and Val Hiebert
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Canada
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Podcast/audio
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