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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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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
menu_book
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
menu_book
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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
menu_book
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![A hand holding a maple leaf](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/andreafall1.jpg.webp?itok=UYzNShrL)
Slow down and connect with others this season
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Undercurrents logo](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/1894699-1579192438479-6ae8821ca5df6.jpg.webp?itok=m0bl1c_N)
Undercurrents - Soup
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A tall tree on a foggy day in Colombia](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS81914_CVAN4743-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=kz4Qrp8D)
Peace is more than a wish through grace
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Peace
Location
Canada + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of people receiving cans of meat in Ukraine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS119265_UMAN%20-%20canned%20meat%20for%20cooks%20Ludmila%20and%20Valentina%20in%20Yahidne%20village_lpr%20%281%29.JPG.webp?itok=62W4rTC0)
Care and peace in a time of war
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
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Relief, development and podcast: Making decisions day by day / Checking in with partner in Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![Nursing students sit at tables in a school classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/4_1.jpg.webp?itok=11ta2Ggv)
A prescription for their future
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Education
Location
Bangladesh
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Danika Warkentin, a junior at Canadian Mennonite University, is the grand prize winner of the 2022 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs120097danikewarkentinheadshot-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=ATh71SgB)
Speech contest winner invites us to join the feast
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Children running onto a makeshift pitch in a school yard in Colombia.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/RS118486_Photo%205-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=XDXgFkbB)
Growing in mind, body and spirit
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Education
Location
Colombia + 5 more
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A Ugandan woman holding a pig](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_pig_story.jpg.webp?itok=Bi_PWgjV)
Gift of a pig
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Food
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A Ugandan woman holding a pig](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_pig_story.jpg.webp?itok=Bi_PWgjV)
A pig story
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Food
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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Growing passion and leadership through Summer Service
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Justice and Equity
Location
Ohio + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Food distribution in South Sudan](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs118509_img_8338-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=YuWDGUYQ)
MCC responds to devastating hunger crisis in South Sudan
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Disaster response
Location
South Sudan
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Media Type
News
newspaper
Pagination
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