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Overcoming obstacles
- Conflict
Palestine and Israel
Jul 2024
Story
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![A group of smiling young adults stand posed while wrapped in flags from various nations.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Group%20-%20flags_1.jpg)
A season of growing and learning
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
Story
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![An MCC staff member observes workers packing emergency food packages in Amman, Jordan.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/podcast%20thumbnail.jpg)
Behind-the-scenes with emergency relief / Bruce Guenther
Palestine and Israel + 5 more
Jul 2024
Podcast/audio
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![A portrait of two-year-old Basthian Raul Alborta Rodriguez makes a game of rolling a tire at Samuelito Daycare in Santa Cruz, Bolivia](/sites/default/files/2024-06/RS132619_2022_0113_07493600.jpg)
Education impact report - Summer 2024
- Education
Bolivia + 1 more
Jul 2024
Impact report
summarize
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![Al-Najd Developmental Forum staff distribute emergency food that has just arrived in Gaza for distribution to families. The shipment arrived on March 19 and was distributed on March 23. *Names withheld for security reasons.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS135147_PSE20240323_gaza_dist_al_016.jpeg)
Relief impact report - Summer 2024
- Disaster response
Palestine and Israel + 1 more
Jul 2024
Impact report
summarize
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![Nyiranshuti Atanaziya speaks with MCC staff at Zambia's Meheba Refugee Settlement Camp.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS132829_Copy%20of%20IMG_2445_hpr.jpg)
Material resources impact report - Summer 2024
Zambia + 2 more
Jul 2024
Impact report
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![A man and woman harvesting crops in a field covered with lush trees](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-04/RS134520_1026_Rwanda_Fairpicture__366_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=rtMtYvSb)
When communities grow together
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Rwanda
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Publication
book
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![A woman smiling in front of a lush forest](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-04/RS134325_Bangladesh_Fairpicture_DSC07522%20%20crop.jpg.webp?itok=mb6GwaIl)
First person: Shamima Akter
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Bangladesh
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Publication
book
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![Chad and Kevin Stout smiling for a photo in front of a building](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-04/RS133719_IMG_4413_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=QZjAGUL-)
Growing a legacy of service in Bangladesh
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Bangladesh
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Publication
book
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![A woman standing in a raised garden](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS133587_120_Bangladesh_Fairpicture_578_lpr%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=6-6Yp3JF)
Above the floodwaters
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Climate Change
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Bangladesh
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Publication
book
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![On October 17, 2023, Firas Hamlawi, right, a volunteer and Rifqah Hamlawi, center, a staff member, with Al-Najd Developmental Forum, helped distribute food packages to 35 families and bedding to 10 f](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/PAL2023_gaza_relief_adf009_HiRes.jpg.webp?itok=Op9M17cb)
Helping to help in Gaza
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Disaster response
Location
Palestine and Israel
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Publication
book
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![Two women standing with three children looking at a horse and goat](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/RS125609_23-AMBCU-1%20hippotherapy%20and%20rehabilitation%20for%20children_HiRes%20%281%29-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=bc0lqqhv)
Addressing the emotional pain of war
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Health
Location
Ukraine
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Publication
book
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![A group of seven people sitting on a bench in Nigeria](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/RS49886_20150423-%7BGurku%7D-166-lpr.JPG.webp?itok=X445lR2F)
Healing when trauma builds up
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Health
Location
Nigeria
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book
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![A woman smiling standing with her hand resting on a horse](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/RS130805_Margaryta%27s%20photo-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=ewVMslPK)
First person: Margaryta
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Health
Location
Ukraine
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Publication
book
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![Two baby goats](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/RS116482_UGA20220208_agriculture_ml0008-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=NK-oCadQ)
Goats galore and more
Location
Lebanon + 5 more
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Publication
book
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![A woman holding an infant receiving a vaccine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/RS127671_SSD202304_loreto_rumbek_dl_378-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=FoR-0UFk)
Giving babies a fair shot
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South Sudan
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book
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![Displaced people working in the fields of Kanzombi, a section of Kikwit, cheer Jacqueline Kafuti, who holds bunches of cassava leaves.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_2174.jpg.webp?itok=Dvu09HH8)
First person: Jacqueline Kafuti
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Migration and Refugees
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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book
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![Germaine Kambundi, a widow and mother of five children, shows the walking path she and her children needed to use to collect water from a contaminated spring.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/COD202303_water_jm_IMG_9966.jpg.webp?itok=rZNfO0pw)
What the gift of clean water brings
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Water
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Publication
book
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