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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 young woman stands in a church sanctuary](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/img0796_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=jHiduvLj)
From school kits to Summerbridge
Location
Manitoba + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
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![Woman with glasses and brown hair speaks from dining room.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/Screenshot%20%28440%29.png.webp?itok=8MaokurX)
Asylum
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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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
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Chad
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Media Type
Video story
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![Children jump in and out of hula hoops which are laying on the ground](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs106791_syr20191009_cps_0400-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=jCibC9Eb)
Looking toward the future
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Education
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A young woman speaking during a webinar zoom call](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%202.png.webp?itok=8GFH0LEX)
Border realities
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A young Syrian girl holds a clapperboard](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/haneen.jpg.webp?itok=nxmsXUCL)
Hello from Syria
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Education
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A family of six pose for a photo](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/5ivephostphoto.jpg.webp?itok=0_i9jvOR)
IVEP host insight
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Peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A photo of 5 people taking a selfie together. The photo is shown as part of a powerpoint during a webinar](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%201.png.webp?itok=9wTLvpu0)
Immigration in times of COVID-19
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A Jordanian woman in a pink and white hijab](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Asma.png.webp?itok=kkX_0Qz2)
Holyland Institute for the Deaf and Deafblind
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Education
Location
Jordan
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A screenshot from a video of a young Syrian girl. There is next on the screen that reads, "The war in Syria has been going on for 8 years."](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/cfs.jpg.webp?itok=eyTZcE47)
Child-Friendly Spaces during war
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Education, Peace
Location
Syria
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Media Type
Video story
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![A black and white photo of a wall in Palestine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-05/RS106370_PAL1987_03_12%20%283%29_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=_m_WK-m-)
Palestinian needlework and MCC
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Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A black and white photo of two men sitting in a potato field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs104014_10.fw1_.algeria.1969-scr_1_2_0.jpg.webp?itok=G0iea6NK)
MCC creation care and sustainability initiatives over the decades
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Climate Change
Location
Canada + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
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