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…
Strengthened by a continuing supply of emergency food, 700 families who have been displaced by violence in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) are…
Daniel* doesn’t have just one reason for leaving his 8-year-old daughter and parents in Honduras. He has many reasons for joining a caravan of thousands of migrants walking toward the…
As the waters recede, the extent of the devastation emerges. People forced from their homes and land by torrential rains in August in India’s Kerala State are returning home. In…
People often say young people are the future. MCC is working with partners in Canada, the U.S. and around the world to invest in opportunities for young people to serve.…
MCC responds to the Rohingya refugee crisis Nur Jemon remembers that the day she fled her home in the Rakhine district of Myanmar started as it did every other day.…
I was born in Santander in north-central Colombia. My husband and I married when he was 17 and I was 15, and we decided to come to Bogotá to look…
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