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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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.…
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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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“Fill me with your love oh Lord,” I say to myself as I breathe in. “And free me from fear,” I think on the exhale. “Fill me with your love…
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Churches in Syria, like Rev. Nseir’s, have been strong partners for MCC in helping provide relief during the conflict. They reach out to their communities and provide support to those in need, both Christians and Muslims. “During the crisis people forgot their religion and remembered one thing, we are all human beings,” Rev. Nseir says.
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Walk into Hagar Association, a school in Be’er Sheba, Israel, and it looks like almost any other school. But if you listen closely, you’ll hear children speaking both Hebrew and…
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