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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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MCC responds to devastating hunger crisis in South Sudan
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Disaster response
Location
South Sudan
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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Responding to crisis and conflict in Ukraine
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Conflict
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Ukraine
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Media Type
Video story
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Undercurrents - Update: "Checkpoint" with Izzy Hawamda
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Disaster response
Location
Ontario + 1 more
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Media Type
Podcast/audio
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Live Q&A with MCC Canada's director of disaster response
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Disaster response
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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Rockets, rosebushes and relief
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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Media Type
Story
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Relief, Development and Podcast: Emergency supplies arrive in Ukraine / MCC staff Nadiya*
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A group of young children stand in front of a shipping container](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs113576_dsc_0766-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=JZEyhY0b)
The complex realities of a global hunger crisis
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Disaster response
Location
South Sudan
Date
Media Type
Story
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Des pertes incalculables
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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Media Type
Story
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MCC raises $8.8 million USD in response to crisis in Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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Loss that cannot be counted
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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Media Type
Story
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![A woman in a purple hijab looks at the chicken section in a grocery store](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/chicken_photo_-_fred_approved.jpg.webp?itok=GVvVg-nA)
Amid economic disaster in Lebanon
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Disaster response
Location
Lebanon
Date
Media Type
Story
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Hope still standing
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
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Media Type
Story
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