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Overcoming obstacles
- Conflict
Palestine and Israel
Jul 2024
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![A group of smiling young adults stand posed while wrapped in flags from various nations.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Group%20-%20flags_1.jpg)
A season of growing and learning
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
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![An MCC staff member observes workers packing emergency food packages in Amman, Jordan.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/podcast%20thumbnail.jpg)
Behind-the-scenes with emergency relief / Bruce Guenther
Palestine and Israel + 5 more
Jul 2024
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![A portrait of two-year-old Basthian Raul Alborta Rodriguez makes a game of rolling a tire at Samuelito Daycare in Santa Cruz, Bolivia](/sites/default/files/2024-06/RS132619_2022_0113_07493600.jpg)
Education impact report - Summer 2024
- Education
Bolivia + 1 more
Jul 2024
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![Al-Najd Developmental Forum staff distribute emergency food that has just arrived in Gaza for distribution to families. The shipment arrived on March 19 and was distributed on March 23. *Names withheld for security reasons.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS135147_PSE20240323_gaza_dist_al_016.jpeg)
Relief impact report - Summer 2024
- Disaster response
Palestine and Israel + 1 more
Jul 2024
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![Nyiranshuti Atanaziya speaks with MCC staff at Zambia's Meheba Refugee Settlement Camp.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS132829_Copy%20of%20IMG_2445_hpr.jpg)
Material resources impact report - Summer 2024
Zambia + 2 more
Jul 2024
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![Taslima Khatun at her floating garden with plants growing in a hanging garden along the shore. She can harvest all year round and her garden is safe from floods. Project implemented by MPUS and funded by MCC. Bogura, Bangladesh.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-07/RS133425_120_Bangladesh_Fairpicture_408_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=nZF1TVxV)
Food impact report - Summer 2024
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Food
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Bangladesh + 1 more
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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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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
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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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![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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![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
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
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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
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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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