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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
Podcast/audio
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Story
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
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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
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![A young child stands outside her hut in the DR Congo. She is wearing a yellow shirt.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/DRC.png.webp?itok=mQ402zh5)
Hello from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A woman from the DR Congo is being interviewed. She has a white shirt with a red collar.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/DRC_0.png.webp?itok=_BBRMx09)
A women's peace movement | DR Congo
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Video story
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![A Cambodian man in a pink shirt being interviewed](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/Cambodia.png.webp?itok=rBaFxZCP)
What can you do with a loan? | Cambodia
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Food
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Four men install a well in Chad. Text on the screen says, "You can help bring clean water to people around the world."](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/Chad.png.webp?itok=ZfZLOkpx)
Water, sanitation and hygiene in Chad
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Water
Location
Chad
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Media Type
Video story
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![A young Syrian girl holds a clapperboard](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/haneen.jpg.webp?itok=nxmsXUCL)
Hello from Syria
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Education
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A Jordanian woman in a pink and white hijab](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Asma.png.webp?itok=kkX_0Qz2)
Holyland Institute for the Deaf and Deafblind
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Education
Location
Jordan
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A screenshot from a video of a young Syrian girl. There is next on the screen that reads, "The war in Syria has been going on for 8 years."](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/cfs.jpg.webp?itok=eyTZcE47)
Child-Friendly Spaces during war
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Education, Peace
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Two different footage side-by-side. The image on the left is man examining crops with three other men. The image on the right is the top a corn stalk.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/MCC%20is%20100.png.webp?itok=Bn17LK1m)
MCC is 100
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Disaster response, Peace
+2 more
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A black and white photo from the 1920s of farmers in a field with tractors](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/RS43372_Russia%20Harvest%20Amer%20Mach015-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=OKaKQudp)
Tractors for Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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Media Type
Video story
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![Two Kenyans sit in their makeshift home](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Kenya.png.webp?itok=LZdVpVSL)
Climate change and migration
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Climate Change, Migration and Refugees
Location
Kenya
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A screenshot from a video of a Cambodian man and woman holding chickens](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/sustainable.jpg.webp?itok=yBt8JXVv)
Chickens, fish and veggies – a sustainable relationship
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Food
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A Cambodian girl studies a book](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/screen_shot_2019-08-08_at_9.49.28_am.jpg.webp?itok=fJqtedyP)
Hello from Cambodia
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Education
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Cambodia
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Media Type
Video story
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