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![Two people sit facing each other, mirroring body language of hands pressed together in a Nepalese greeting.](/sites/default/files/resource-space/377874774_712420904260885_745544933749777228_n.jpg)
A journey of service with Mennonite Central Committee
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
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Your impact in Ontario - Summer 2024
Ontario
Jul 2024
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"Put a little love in your yard"
- Peace
North Carolina
Jul 2024
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![Ko’ona Saber, Kerry Saner-Harvey and Jonathan Neufeld sitting together on a bench](/sites/default/files/2024-07/20240614%20-%20Threads%20Healing%20Forest.jpg)
Threads – Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties, shows Indigenous reparations in action.
Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties websiteManitoba
Jul 2024
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Seeking Christ
- Education
Cambodia
Jul 2024
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![Three men are engaged in a conversation](/sites/default/files/2024-06/BillJanzen2_1.jpg)
Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
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Food
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Bangladesh
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A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
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Food
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Bangladesh
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Podcast/audio
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![A woman standing in front of lush green trees](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/RS136841_IMG_8433_lpr.JPG.webp?itok=HLT94qVk)
From soil to solidarity
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Food, Climate Change
Location
Puerto Rico
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![Two children work on laptops](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-05/JudyandQusai.jpg.webp?itok=yLzMUA7Y)
Children get involved with MCC partner in Gaza to feed the hungry
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Food
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Palestine and Israel
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Story
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![person packaging food for distribution in Myanmar](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-04/RS134102_signal-2023-12-18-074144_024.jpeg.webp?itok=ZCwi1ZZs)
'Being riskless is not always the will of God'
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Food, Peace
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Myanmar (Burma)
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![A person wearing a a vest with an MCC logo in a warehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS134050_20240222_113041_lpr_wide.jpg.webp?itok=7oqP3fmv)
MCC shipment of food crosses border into Gaza
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Food
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Palestine and Israel
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Story
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![a water colour painting of a mother farming while carrying her child on her back](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Bread%20of%20Life.png.webp?itok=mcpjTlr8)
Prayerfully Hoping
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Food
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Alberta
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Story
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![Mary Nyashin Tsief (70) stands in front of her home in Rubkona camp for people displaced by flooding and violent conflict. She is accompanied by her two grandchildren, Nyamen Iuok Ram (age 5) and Nyawich Iuok Ram (age 3), who live in a tent adjacent to hers.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/20231025-DSCF3366.jpg.webp?itok=CnPEuC1V)
Food impact report - Winter 2024
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Food
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South Sudan + 1 more
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Impact report
summarize
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![Picture of Mok Samun demonstrates how she feeds her chickens with feed that she makes herself from ingredients that she grows on her farm.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS130382_DSC_0358%20%281%29.JPG.webp?itok=_HJANkQV)
Canadian Foodgrains Bank Impact Report - Winter 2024
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Food
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Cambodia
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Impact report
summarize
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![table of Christmas giving project cards](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/1AD20143-0FB0-40C5-85D7-FB06E9683648-24445-000003E8DB9595C5.JPG.webp?itok=OHXVFWVb)
Threads - Dec 2023 Christmas Giving
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Food
Location
Manitoba
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Podcast/audio
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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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![David Suh holds canned meat at the Material Resources Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/IMG_5904.JPG.webp?itok=Qh0lx3El)
"In the name of Christ"
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Food
Location
Pennsylvania + 1 more
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Story
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