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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
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
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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
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![An Amish buggy that has been painted with a mural](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/side_1_and_back_cropped.jpg.webp?itok=Ti7UBzpZ)
The Landed Buggy
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Indigenous Neighbors
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Ontario
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![Irene Klassen sorts clothing at Thrift on Kent in Kitchener. The thousands of Thrift volunteers in Ontario have been steadfast in their support of MCC through the closures and limited reopenings throu](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/DSC04259_1.jpg.webp?itok=HH6YextO)
4 simple ideas to take action
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Climate Change
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Canada + 1 more
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![An old woman in a black jacket and green shirt smiles for the camera. She is standing in front of a rack of clothes hangers.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/myra.jpg.webp?itok=2mGdTLGX)
Volunteer finds fellowship and fulfillment at MCC thrift shop
Location
Ontario
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Story
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![A woman in a purple hijab looks at the chicken section in a grocery store](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/chicken_photo_-_fred_approved.jpg.webp?itok=GVvVg-nA)
Amid economic disaster in Lebanon
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Disaster response
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Lebanon
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Story
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Menno au Québec
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Peace
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Québec
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Media Type
Story
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![A group of people in winter clothes sit in a van](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs115800_kecb-05.jpg.webp?itok=jo-pnglW)
Hope still standing
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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Story
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![Two men stand with the duck they hunted. There is snow on the ground.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/northern_exposure_2008_walk_the_line_023.jpg.webp?itok=4t5NixT7)
Why living off the land is crucial - and nearly impossible to do
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Indigenous Neighbors
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Ontario
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Story
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![A young latinx woman drinking from a coconut](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/lynette_milagro-standard-height-2000px.jpg.webp?itok=54C_udh5)
When faith and pain lead to service
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Migration and Refugees
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Guatemala
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![A group of Ukrainian adults and children stand together to take a photo.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs116331_microsoftteams-image_5.jpg.webp?itok=IICz1LAs)
MCC partners in Ukraine work to meet physical and spiritual needs
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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Story
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![A man squats and works in his garden](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img_20220211_162722.jpg.webp?itok=5FyoU5mi)
Staying home or choosing to roam
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Migration and Refugees, Food
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India
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Story
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MCC church partners in Ukraine supply essential local care
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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![Clothes section of a thrift shop](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/dscf1945cr.jpg.webp?itok=jkUOkkRL)
Community built hand in hand
Location
Manitoba
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