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A woman and man smiling at a food distribution in Zimbabwe.

249 stories

June 2021 distribution of emergency relief items, including maize flour, beans, vegetable oil, salt, blankets, pots, plates and cups, to families in the Buhene and Bugeregere communities in Goma, Demo

MCC Canada awarded $4.7 million grant for humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Food

Democratic Republic of the Congo

04/10/2025

News

MCC Canada awarded $4.7 million grant for humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

White daisies with a bee on one of the flower's yellow center

Peacemaking through native plants

Climate Change

Pennsylvania

04/10/2025

Story

Peacemaking through native plants

Close-up of the hands of a Guatemalan woman holding peppers.

Threads – Climate Resilience in Guatemala Starts with Choice

Climate Action for Peace

Climate Change

Manitoba + 1 more

04/03/2025

Podcast/audio

Threads – Climate Resilience in Guatemala Starts with Choice

Man stands in front of wall

Being bridges not walls

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Migration and Refugees

United States

03/18/2025

Video story

Being bridges not walls

Words matter when we talk about immigrants

Migration and Refugees

United States

03/11/2025

Words matter when we talk about immigrants

Five-year-old Sudeyis Sherif, collects his award for standing 1st in his nursery school class from MCC staff Solomon along at the morning assembly cermony of RPC Preschool, Adama Ethiopia, March 2024.

Education impact report - Winter 2025

Education

Ethiopia + 1 more

02/14/2025

Impact report

Education impact report - Winter 2025

Biskute Mengistu, 4th grade, left, and the newest member of the WASH Health club and Mihret Daba, 8th grade, and the leader of the WASH Health club in Ajiti Primary School in Batu, Ethiopia. March, 2024.

Water impact report - Winter 2025

Water

Ethiopia + 1 more

02/14/2025

Impact report

Water impact report - Winter 2025

Sangita Soren (30) stands with her crops at her farm in Jahada Rural Municipality-5, Morang, Nepal. She got seasonal and off seasonal vegetable farming training from SAHAS.

Food impact report - Winter 2025

Food

Nepal + 1 more

02/14/2025

Impact report

Food impact report - Winter 2025

MCC partner Al-Najd Developmental Forum delivered 930 food parcels to the Holy Family Church in Gaza which were distributed on August 13–14, 2024.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank Impact Report - Winter 2025

Food

Palestine and Israel + 1 more

02/14/2025

Impact report

Canadian Foodgrains Bank Impact Report - Winter 2025

woman facing two people with backs to the camera

MCC immigration staff in U.S. field urgent calls, questions

Migration and Refugees

United States + 2 more

02/14/2025

Story

MCC immigration staff in U.S. field urgent calls, questions

Students gather in front of the United Nations General Assembly sign.

MCC UN Student Seminar plants seeds of hope and change

Peace, Education

New York + 2 more

01/23/2025

Story

MCC UN Student Seminar plants seeds of hope and change

Rocio Valencia Islas(left) and Victor Lampón Leon (right), are pastors at La Mano de Dios en Apoyo al Migrante (God’s Hand in Support of Migrants) in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico, a church ministry providin

For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat

Migration and Refugees

Mexico

01/10/2025

Publication

For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat

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