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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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![A picture of children in a community in North Achefer woreda demonstrate to visitors from MCC and partner Afro-Ethiopia Integrated Development (AEID) their excitement about having access to clean drinking water from a well built in January 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS124834_P9740850-hpr.jpg.webp?itok=Umyitpqu)
Water impact report - Winter 2024
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Water
Location
Ethiopia + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![Germaine Kambundi, a widow and mother of five children, shows the walking path she and her children needed to use to collect water from a contaminated spring.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/COD202303_water_jm_IMG_9966.jpg.webp?itok=rZNfO0pw)
What the gift of clean water brings
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Publication
book
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Welcoming IDPs with water in DR Congo / Reverend Kimbila
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
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![A young woman carrying two buckets of water](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS125069_COD202303_water_jm_IMG_1789-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=5chBxt2W)
“With this water, there is a great change.”
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A girl in a white dress washes her hands in a bucket. She has a stream of water falling off her hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS125073_COD202303_water_jm_IMG_1869-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=X03EA5qJ)
Water impact report - Summer 2023
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Water
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Impact report
summarize
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![A group of Indigenous Bolivans walk down a mountain side](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/ccdb3bb9-a94d-498b-b355-9e17b00d10a4.jpeg.webp?itok=PmyTCXlG)
Along for the ride
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Food, Water
+1 more
Location
Bolivia
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Media Type
Story
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![A man in a blue sweater vest and a cap stands in a garden on the mountainside of Bolivia](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs115748_img_1326-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=NKSRNe2T)
How it works
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Climate Change, Water
Location
Bolivia
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A Bolivian man in a white stocking hat](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/first_person-gabriel_cropped.jpg.webp?itok=NIR_AdNH)
First person: Gabriel Acarapi Chuca
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Climate Change, Water
Location
Bolivia
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![A Bolivian Indigenous person stands on a mountainside.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/aharvestofwater-acommonplacefall2021.jpg.webp?itok=PYL5V3m6)
A harvest of water
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Water, Climate Change
Location
Bolivia
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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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
Location
Syria + 3 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Four men install a well in Chad. Text on the screen says, "You can help bring clean water to people around the world."](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/Chad.png.webp?itok=ZfZLOkpx)
Water, sanitation and hygiene in Chad
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Water
Location
Chad
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Three Chadian women in blue vests](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs98478_colinvandenberg-1584-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=2M0eeMFV)
Water from stone
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Water, Migration and Refugees
Location
Chad
Date
Media Type
Story
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