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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
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
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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
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
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![A group of Ukrainian adults and children stand together to take a photo.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs116331_microsoftteams-image_5.jpg.webp?itok=IICz1LAs)
MCC partners in Ukraine work to meet physical and spiritual needs
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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![A woman and two children walk down a road.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/gettyimages-1238750770.jpg.webp?itok=F5TdFgwh)
MCC church partners in Ukraine supply essential local care
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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![A Ukrainian man and woman stand together. He has his arm around her.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/picture_max_and_anya_2_002.jpg.webp?itok=7B_ojTr7)
Message from Ukraine
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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Volunteers “like a bunch of angels”
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Disaster response
Location
British Columbia
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Three elder, Ukrainian women. The middle woman has a scarf on her head.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/MicrosoftTeams-image%20%286%29.png.webp?itok=hGi3cBXo)
A prayer for Ukraine
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Disaster response
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Ukraine
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Media Type
Video story
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![A young girl playing with a doll beside a dollhouse made of an MCC canned meat box](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS114430_DSC03126-2_lpr%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=N98wxKeD)
MCC responds to crisis in Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![An older Cuban woman stands in a yard and holds two cans of meat with green labels.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/RS113686_2021CubaWhatsApp-Image_02-scale-3_00x-lrg-lpr%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=WN6M0The)
MCC sends food and relief to Cubans in crisis
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Disaster response
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Cuba
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Story
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![Apartment buildings destroyed from Beruit explosion.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs110050_img_9211.jpg.webp?itok=WXY5E7PX)
Beirut explosion: one year later
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Disaster response
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Lebanon
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Story
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![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](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SK2011_05mrc_cb0159.JPG.webp?itok=yCkV3lAE)
Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry
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Peace, Food
+3 more
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Syria + 3 more
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![A number of piles of folded comforters sit on different surfaces in a warehouse.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs111077_20190917_121343_0.jpg.webp?itok=hBoNDao5)
Comforters: from creation to distribution
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Disaster response
Location
Pennsylvania
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Story
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![MCC Guatemala/El Salvador staff and volunteers prepared relief kits to be sent to the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala after Hurricane Eta hit the country on November 4th and 5th, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_1445.JPG.webp?itok=YrBVgjHn)
Keeping calm and shipping on through COVID-19
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Disaster response
Location
United States + 1 more
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![A preview of quilts and other online auction items for the Ohio Mennonite Relief Sale coincided with a drive-thru food event in Kidron, Ohio, in September 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/quilt%20preview.JPG.webp?itok=yGG1ZO5-)
Ingenuity at work
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Disaster response
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United States
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Story
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