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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
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![Two young women wearing hair nets in a warehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/3.jpg.webp?itok=l11NrDxK)
Growing a passion for social justice through Summer Service
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United States
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![A father and son sit together on a bunch. The son is holding a carved pumpkin](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/122057259_1332214807110303_2389105748814976047_n_-_copy.jpg.webp?itok=5bUsye1Z)
Community Connections Program
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British Columbia
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![Apartment buildings destroyed from Beruit explosion.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs110050_img_9211.jpg.webp?itok=WXY5E7PX)
Beirut explosion: one year later
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Disaster response
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Lebanon
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![A grey and yellow quilt](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/f564ad6a-6f0b-4ea9-b547-991433d6b900_0.jpg.webp?itok=fapCYk_Q)
Breaking stereotypes one quilt at a time
Location
Ohio
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Story
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![Zebron Mwale holds his badge to signify his Peace Club membership in April 2021. Mwale joined a Peace Club program while serving his sentence in a Zambian prison. He credits Peace Clubs with changing](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/peace%20club%20badge%20%283%29.jpg.webp?itok=aczweWrk)
Peace behind prison bars
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Peace
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Zambia
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Story
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![Bill Siemens volunteers two days a week at the MCC Saskatchewan Centre in Saskatoon, cutting up old jeans and weaving the strips of fabric into small rugs that are sold to support MCC programs. The 70](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SK2011_05mrc_cb0159.JPG.webp?itok=yCkV3lAE)
Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry
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Peace, Food
+3 more
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Syria + 3 more
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Story
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![A family of four kneal together in the sand at the beach. The ocean is behind them.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/picture1_0%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=qWvTpExz)
So romantic…
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Migration and Refugees
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Florida
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Story
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![Shadi Alkhannous runs the take-out and delivery counter at the Alnoor Halal Food Market in St. Catherines, Ont., serving meals like shish tawook, chicken shawarma and beef kabab. He and his family hav](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Shadi%20Alkhannous%2C%20Ontario.png.webp?itok=Xw3waqTm)
Resettled refugees support from the front lines during COVID-19
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Migration and Refugees
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Ontario + 1 more
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![A woman shopping in a thrift store](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/012021_reuzit_on_state_19.jpg.webp?itok=qoTmtmSZ)
MCC Thrift shops
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East Coast + 2 more
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![A woman smiling on a Zoom video call](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/ariannis.png.webp?itok=I92QQF4N)
Exploring public health around the world without leaving home
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Education, Health
Location
Indiana + 1 more
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![Ininew Friendship Centre Executive Director Susan Nelson (left) and Cultural Resource Coordinator Mary Jane Archibald.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/microsoftteams-image5.png.webp?itok=uIj5jFG3)
Planting seeds of hope and empowerment
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Indigenous Neighbors, Food
+1 more
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Ontario
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![A number of piles of folded comforters sit on different surfaces in a warehouse.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs111077_20190917_121343_0.jpg.webp?itok=hBoNDao5)
Comforters: from creation to distribution
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Disaster response
Location
Pennsylvania
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Story
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