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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
Story
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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
Impact report
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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
Impact report
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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
Impact report
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The newness of this life
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Migration and Refugees
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Syria + 1 more
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Learning to help migrants with trauma
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Migration and Refugees
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United States
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Story
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![Relatives of disappeared people in Mexico hold hands, forming a heart, during the December 2023 national gathering of the Movement of Our Disappeared.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Coraz%C3%B3n%20MNDM%202023.jpeg.webp?itok=NfaKnhX_)
Why U.S. gun sales south of the border matter
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Migration and Refugees
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United States + 3 more
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Love is a house
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Migration and Refugees
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Saskatchewan + 1 more
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Podcast/audio
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![Adonis Kodjihiti engages with students during break at Esperanza Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/Adonis%20serving%20refreshements%20for%20the%20break%20during%20classes.jpg.webp?itok=eTpDV4-E)
A valuable addition of an IVEP participant to an educational service program
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Migration and Refugees, Education
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Maryland
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Story
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Threads - Nov 2023 Welcome the Stranger
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Migration and Refugees
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Manitoba
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Podcast/audio
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![Displaced people working in the fields of Kanzombi, a section of Kikwit, cheer Jacqueline Kafuti, who holds bunches of cassava leaves.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_2174.jpg.webp?itok=Dvu09HH8)
First person: Jacqueline Kafuti
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Migration and Refugees
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Publication
book
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![A man in a high-visibility vest stand in front of a warehouse full of boxes](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/IMG_0176.jpeg.webp?itok=zSNWuvoU)
Finding new life at the Winnipeg thrift shop
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Migration and Refugees
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Manitoba + 1 more
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Story
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Undercurrents - Five lessons from refugee sponsorship
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Migration and Refugees
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Ontario
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Podcast/audio
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"Far from perfect, but so worth it."
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Migration and Refugees
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Ontario
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Story
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Walking with newcomers
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Migration and Refugees
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Indiana
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Story
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New burdens on asylum seekers follow the end of Title 42
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Migration and Refugees
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United States
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
Pagination
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