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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
Podcast/audio
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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
newspaper
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Statement on MCC’s Historical Entanglements with National Socialism
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Canada + 1 more
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News
newspaper
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![Field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs103987can20190825growhopems0111medres.jpg.webp?itok=ytghX9aV)
Germinating Conversations and the art of listening well
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Manitoba
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News
newspaper
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Community support key to Ohio thrift shop's $1M donation to MCC
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Peace
Location
Ohio
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News
newspaper
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Volunteers “like a bunch of angels”
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Disaster response
Location
British Columbia
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News
newspaper
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![A young girl playing with a doll beside a dollhouse made of an MCC canned meat box](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS114430_DSC03126-2_lpr%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=N98wxKeD)
MCC responds to crisis in Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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MCC's historical entanglements with National Socialism
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Justice and Equity
Location
Canada
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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Crying out for justice
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Justice and Equity
Location
Alabama
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News
newspaper
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Strengthening racial equity
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United States
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News
newspaper
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MCC launches new menstrual hygiene dignity kit
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Health
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South Sudan
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News
newspaper
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MCC Canada sends letters to Government Ministers
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Peace
Location
Canada
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News
newspaper
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