Our Stories | Mennonite Central Committee

Meet the communities whose perspectives and experiences shape MCC’s work.

Hear how they’re adapting and innovating in the face of poverty, conflict and injustice.

See how we’re creating a brighter future, together.

A woman and man smiling at a food distribution in Zimbabwe.

15 stories

Marie Jeanne Kudimuka, 65, stands outside her home.

Water impact report - Summer 2024

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo

07/17/2024

Impact report

Water impact report - Summer 2024

A picture of children in a community in North Achefer woreda demonstrate to visitors from MCC and partner Afro-Ethiopia Integrated Development (AEID) their excitement about having access to clean drinking water from a well built in January 2023.

Water impact report - Winter 2024

Water

Ethiopia + 1 more

01/15/2024

Impact report

Water impact report - Winter 2024

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.

What the gift of clean water brings

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo

10/03/2023

Publication

What the gift of clean water brings

women carrying a jerrycan

Relief, Development and Podcast | Welcoming IDPs with water in DR Congo / Reverend Kimbila

Listen now

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo

08/17/2023

Podcast/audio

Relief, Development and Podcast | Welcoming IDPs with water in DR Congo / Reverend Kimbila

A young woman carrying two buckets of water

“With this water, there is a great change.”

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo

07/17/2023

Story

“With this water, there is a great change.”

A girl in a white dress washes her hands in a bucket. She has a stream of water falling off her hands.

Water impact report - Summer 2023

See your impact

Water

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more

07/04/2023

Impact report

Water impact report - Summer 2023

A group of Indigenous Bolivans walk down a mountain side

Along for the ride

Food, Water +1 more

Bolivia

11/24/2022

Story

Along for the ride

A man in a blue sweater vest and a cap stands in a garden on the mountainside of Bolivia

How it works

Climate Change, Water

Bolivia

05/25/2022

Story

A Bolivian man in a white stocking hat

First person: Gabriel Acarapi Chuca

Climate Change, Water

Bolivia

04/29/2022

Publication

First person: Gabriel Acarapi Chuca

A Bolivian Indigenous person stands on a mountainside.

A harvest of water

Water, Climate Change

Bolivia

09/27/2021

Publication

A harvest of water

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

Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry

Peace, Food +3 more

Syria + 3 more

05/03/2021

Story

Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry

Four men install a well in Chad. Text on the screen says, "You can help bring clean water to people around the world."

Water, sanitation and hygiene in Chad

Water

Chad

05/13/2020

Video story

Water, sanitation and hygiene in Chad

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