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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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![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
Podcast/audio
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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
Story
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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
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![Children sitting in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs123309_ukr2022_blaho_el_2k3a8473-denoise.jpg.webp?itok=nLwcfMVO)
Carrying on in Ukraine
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Disaster response, Education
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A collapsed building in Syria](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs124256_img_20230209_143502_302_1.jpg.webp?itok=DZMZSoT_)
After the earthquakes in Syria
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Disaster response
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Syria
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Media Type
Story
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![The exterior of MCC BC's office in Abbotsford near a road with many tents pitched to the side](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/2023-04mccbcgladysaveabbotsfordedited.jpg.webp?itok=JCMh849M)
Homelessness prevention and outreach
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Poverty Reduction
Location
British Columbia
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Media Type
Story
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![An aerial photo of a lithium mine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Chemetall_Foote_Lithium_Operation.jpg.webp?itok=mJlUquaa)
Considering the “dirty” impacts of critical minerals mining
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Climate Change
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Story
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![a group of six women smile in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img5538resized_0.jpg.webp?itok=TOBdc_Yj)
Women’s Global Village:
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Education, Peace
+1 more
Location
Pennsylvania
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Story
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![A man holding a potato fruit](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/RS115825_IMG_1491_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=wseGZHRI)
A holistic approach to climate adaptation
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Climate Change
Location
Bolivia
Date
Media Type
Story
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Graphic design and cooking pave the way to emotional resiliency
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Education
Location
Bolivia
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Portrait of clean energy engineer Tariro Cynthia Mutsindikwa from MCC's partner SCORE Against Poverty.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SAW_2175.jpg.webp?itok=9kPWBOFx)
Climate action from the ground up
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Climate Change
Location
Zimbabwe
Date
Media Type
Story
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![women standing beside painting from Memduh Kuzay](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/margie1.jpg.webp?itok=SZIixPgS)
Art for Peace
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Peace
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A woman smiling in an MCC thrift shop](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/graber3.jpg.webp?itok=JPQWs2nx)
Still thrifty at 100
Location
South Dakota
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A man and two women stand with three children](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/sokfamilyandsabrina_0.jpeg.webp?itok=7E2DPgtl)
From guest to host
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Education
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A group of children playing with clay](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs124426_group_large_file%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=Uw2lVXKC)
Children's war stories
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Disaster response, Education
Location
Ukraine
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Media Type
Story
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