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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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![A woman from the DR Congo is being interviewed. She has a white shirt with a red collar.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/DRC_0.png.webp?itok=_BBRMx09)
A women's peace movement | DR Congo
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Peace
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Video story
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![A view from above of a large group of adults made up of many different ethnicities. A bald man with a white beard wearing a black top stands in the middle.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/hauerwas_kyoto_2018_1.jpg.webp?itok=VQWdfYqy)
Interview with Stanley Hauerwas:
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United States
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A woman shopping in a thrift store](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/012021_reuzit_on_state_19.jpg.webp?itok=qoTmtmSZ)
MCC Thrift shops
Location
East Coast + 2 more
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![Two men sit near the railing of a boat. They are talking to each other.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/saucedo_and_kinney_3_mg.jpg.webp?itok=sb4t7rfc)
Strengthening racial equity
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United States
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News
newspaper
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![A group of women in South Sudan](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs111617_dor_gender_officer_explains_the_use_of_the_sanitary_pads_to_primary_8_girls-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=aXjSlhzs)
MCC launches new menstrual hygiene dignity kit
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Health
Location
South Sudan
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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![A woman smiling on a Zoom video call](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/ariannis.png.webp?itok=I92QQF4N)
Exploring public health around the world without leaving home
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Education, Health
Location
Indiana + 1 more
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![Ininew Friendship Centre Executive Director Susan Nelson (left) and Cultural Resource Coordinator Mary Jane Archibald.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/microsoftteams-image5.png.webp?itok=uIj5jFG3)
Planting seeds of hope and empowerment
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Indigenous Neighbors, Food
+1 more
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Ontario
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![A number of piles of folded comforters sit on different surfaces in a warehouse.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs111077_20190917_121343_0.jpg.webp?itok=hBoNDao5)
Comforters: from creation to distribution
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Disaster response
Location
Pennsylvania
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Story
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![This mystery building, and the adjacent land, was the site of Henrietta Dismukes Hospital and Nurses’ Home, one of the largest privately owned African American hospitals in the country.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Henriette%20Dismuke%20Hospital%20Nurses%27%20Home.jpg.webp?itok=PewLr-p4)
History unveiled in Appalachia
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Justice and Equity
Location
West Virginia + 1 more
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Story
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![A city landscape with mountains in the distance](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/view_from_window2.jpg.webp?itok=EnQZ5Bd5)
The view from my window
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Health
Location
Lebanon + 6 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![MCC Guatemala/El Salvador staff and volunteers prepared relief kits to be sent to the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala after Hurricane Eta hit the country on November 4th and 5th, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_1445.JPG.webp?itok=YrBVgjHn)
Keeping calm and shipping on through COVID-19
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Disaster response
Location
United States + 1 more
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![A young woman in a face mask stands next to a wall covered with colorful learning materials in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS111806_Charnesha%20-%20horizontal-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=a37cFUJc)
Creating a second home: From cradle to career
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Illinois + 1 more
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