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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
Podcast/audio
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Story
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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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![child raise hands for turn at whiteboard](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/p4t_older_preschool_with_white_board.jpg.webp?itok=fzdBiR15)
Becoming beautiful trees
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Education, Migration and Refugees
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A group of Sudanese students sit at their desks in a small classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/egypt_al_hajana.jpg.webp?itok=19QVYjG8)
Forced from home but still learning
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Education, Migration and Refugees
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Egypt
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Media Type
Story
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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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Media Type
Story
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![Children jump in and out of hula hoops which are laying on the ground](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs106791_syr20191009_cps_0400-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=jCibC9Eb)
Looking toward the future
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Education
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A young Syrian girl holds a clapperboard](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/haneen.jpg.webp?itok=nxmsXUCL)
Hello from Syria
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Education
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A Jordanian woman in a pink and white hijab](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Asma.png.webp?itok=kkX_0Qz2)
Holyland Institute for the Deaf and Deafblind
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Education
Location
Jordan
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A screenshot from a video of a young Syrian girl. There is next on the screen that reads, "The war in Syria has been going on for 8 years."](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/cfs.jpg.webp?itok=eyTZcE47)
Child-Friendly Spaces during war
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Education, Peace
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A Cambodian girl studies a book](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/screen_shot_2019-08-08_at_9.49.28_am.jpg.webp?itok=fJqtedyP)
Hello from Cambodia
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Education
Location
Cambodia
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Media Type
Video story
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![A young Kenyan student stands in front of a chalkboard. She is wearing a school uniform sweater with a yellow collar.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/Kenya.png.webp?itok=ltkW2GG-)
Reusable sanitary pads help keep girls in school in Kenya
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Education, Health
Location
Kenya
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Media Type
Video story
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![A portrait of a Burundi woman with a colorful scarf around her head](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/burundi_4.jpg.webp?itok=xzdFXsLW)
"We are strong now"
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Health, Education
Location
Burundi
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Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A Rwandan woman in a chef hat whisks something in a bowl](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/imgp8127_web.jpg.webp?itok=FHNh7ph2)
Culinary arts for a brighter future
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Education
Location
Rwanda
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Media Type
Story
menu_book
Pagination
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