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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
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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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![Children at Lindale Mennonite Church present their finished comforters.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/Children%20comforter_Lindale_1.jpg.webp?itok=EiNT7oAZ)
Children knot warmth and hope
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East Coast
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![baby Jesus lying in the rubble](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20214227%20%281%29.png.webp?itok=TI-idT3-)
Christmas under the rubble
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Justice and Equity
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Palestine and Israel + 2 more
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Story
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![A group of people walk with a pail of water and an eagle staff alongside a river](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/DSC01186.JPG.webp?itok=wUjd8iMC)
"You're a small part of something wonderful"
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Indigenous Neighbors
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Canada
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Story
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![Three young girls smiling and hugging](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/RS118847_IMG_E6117-lpr.JPG.webp?itok=WomJTmdV)
Five special Christmas gifts you can't pull from a shelf
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Canada
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Story
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![Intricate root systems of trees planted along the Pechelín Creek protect the creek bed from erosion.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_9493.jpg.webp?itok=M6SaaXvs)
What to watch at COP28
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Climate Change
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Middle East
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Media Type
Story
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![a series of bunk beds with MCC quilts as their bedding](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/LindaQuilt2.png.webp?itok=DacaqtG3)
Comforters, Corrections and Compassion
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Peace
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Zambia + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
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![A display with art, a lamp, candles and flowers. The art is a picture of a mother holding a baby.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/IMG_0170.jpg.webp?itok=BnZMVc0B)
Breaking the cycle
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British Columbia
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![People who survived Hurricanes Eta and Iota and recived supplies to rebuild their houses from CASM, Comisión de Acción Social Menonita, an MCC partner.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Bajos%20de%20Choloma%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=wS3_4FtD)
Loss and damages is a climate justice response
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Climate Change
Location
Canada + 5 more
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![Group of IVEPers](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/Participant%20Insight%20for%20header%20photo.jpg.webp?itok=IO0lf4oN)
Stories of cultural exploration in the U.S.
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United States
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![sunshine shimmering through trees](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/trees%20and%20sky.jpg.webp?itok=xUz0OdoG)
Why Christians make good climate actors
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Climate Change
Location
United States + 1 more
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Story
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![Adonis Kodjihiti engages with students during break at Esperanza Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/Adonis%20serving%20refreshements%20for%20the%20break%20during%20classes.jpg.webp?itok=eTpDV4-E)
A valuable addition of an IVEP participant to an educational service program
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Migration and Refugees, Education
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Maryland
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![Jason Schmidt (IVEP Supervisor 2022-23) at his farm, Grazing Plains Farm, in Whitewater, Kansas.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/jason.jpg.webp?itok=6x8yk7DP)
Cultivating friendship and community
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Food
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Kansas
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