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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
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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
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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
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![Blues band performs at the music festival for MCC.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-07/IMG_9025%20-%20LPT.JPG.webp?itok=CXBmD0s-)
"Put a little love in your yard"
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Peace
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North Carolina
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![Ko’ona Saber, Kerry Saner-Harvey and Jonathan Neufeld sitting together on a bench](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-07/20240614%20-%20Threads%20Healing%20Forest.jpg.webp?itok=2U_Gdsuh)
Threads – Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties, shows Indigenous reparations in action.
Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties websiteLocation
Manitoba
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Seeking Christ
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Education
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Cambodia
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
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Food
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Bangladesh
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A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
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Food
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Bangladesh
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Podcast/audio
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Colonialism is still an ongoing reality for Indigenous women
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Ontario
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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
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Canada
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News
newspaper
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From soil to solidarity
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Food, Climate Change
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Puerto Rico
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![Family of eight stand with an IVEP participant in front of a Christmas tree.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Zimmerman%20family%20with%20Innocent.jpg.webp?itok=w__lv30f)
The nudge
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United States + 1 more
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![Six women wearing ethnic attire stand in front of an arc of blue and yellow balloons.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Maria.jpg.webp?itok=5Xe7f8AZ)
God always shows His care
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Guatemala + 1 more
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![IVEP participant is crouched and feeding a baby calf with a bottle.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/image000000%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=8pI18qoo)
Seeing our lives through the eyes of an IVEPer
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United States + 1 more
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![IVEP participants stand together in a grassy field.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Top%20photo.JPG.webp?itok=2AxdQRZn)
Freely you have received; freely give
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United States + 2 more
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