All of Joseph Gudo’s hard work was summed up in one small plate of food. He’d laboured for months in the field and uncountable hours in the kitchen all in service to this dish—a neat pile of mashed cowpeas (or black-eyed peas), buoyed by a bold pinch of cayenne pepper and dressed up with pops of colourful diced tomatoes and green peppers. This was everything he’d been working for, his heart and soul on a plate.
“Thank you for not leaving us alone,” one woman told Paul Shetler Fast, MCC’s health coordinator and former representative in Haiti who was present for the Aug. 31 distribution. “We’ve felt very alone these last days waiting after the earthquake, hoping someone would come, hoping someone would not forget us.”
Samir Menassa remembers when his convenience store used to attract many customers. Located among pubs and restaurants in Beirut, Lebanon, the store was a convenient place for people to purchase a few things they needed as they strolled through the area.
That memory blew up along with a massive explosion of ammonium nitrate…Eight of Alice Joubanian’s grandchildren—all under eight years old—lived with her and her daughter in a Beirut camp for Armenian refugees when a massive explosion of ammonium nitrate rocked the city on Aug. 4, 2020.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada will relocate its central material resources warehouse from Plum Coulee, Manitoba, to New Hamburg, Ontario.
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Clean hands and full hearts: Handwashing sparks joy while preventing COVID-19 at a Malawi food distribution
There were no known cases of COVID-19 in Malawi when Vivian Bertrand was planning how to include soap and handwashing in the next food distribution. But it didn’t take long for that to change.
Given the negative economic effects of COVID-19, including funding uncertainties, travel restrictions and other factors; MCC has made strategic decisions regarding other programming to ensure that their core mission remains strong in challenging times and continues to benefit some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
April 15, 2020 This story was written in February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic became a worldwide threat. As of April 2020, Minear Mak is still serving in her YAMEN…
MCC is well-positioned through its ongoing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), health and food programs to address the threats of COVID-19 for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, including people displaced from their homes.
WINNIPEG, MB – It is with regret that Mennonite Central Committee Canada announces the closure of the corporate operations of Ten Thousand Villages Canada, its fair-trade social enterprise. This includes…
Chapter one of the MCC centennial story “At the railroad stations, the sight was appalling. The moment the train halted, it was besieged by living skeletons. From out of the…
MCC partner supports Salvadoran women to speak up Ana Iris Constante says she used to be nervous just to introduce herself. She would never have guessed that one day, she…
Earlier this year in the city of Tshikapa, four Congolese women laughed together as they filled a water trough for their pigs – animals that hold the promise of income…
Venezuelan migrants received with care and compassion After fleeing two thousand kilometres from their home in Venezuela to escape political and economic turmoil, Carmen Sanchez and her family found themselves…
MCC’s 40 years of refugee resettlement in Canada More than 12,500 refugees have been resettled in Canada by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) since negotiating an agreement with the government on…
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