Afghanistan: Rebuilding a Shattered Land
16 minutes, Video, Grade 10 to adult.
MCC began working in Afghanistan in 1995 and since that time
has committed more than $8 million US to projects in that country.
Learn about recent MCC projects of food aid, building supplies
and a prosthetics program for civilians maimed by mines and cluster
bombs, left over from many wars.
Global Family Resource Box
The Global Family Resource Box – filled with activities,
recipes, games, pictures and meditations the Global Family Resource
Box is designed to help you learn more about the global family
– children around the world.
Reconciling Relationships
This new resource is an update on the popular booklet “Why
Treaties?” which explores the history of and issues around
treaty negotiations in BC. For more information or to receive
a copy contact Darryl Klassen at our office.
Why is there hunger in the world?
One
long held myth is that there is simply not enough food to feed
everyone. In reality abundance, not scarcity, best describes the
world’s food supply. This causes one to search further for
explanations why 840 million people face hunger in a world that
produces enough food for everyone.
MCC’s new Hunger Packet “Enough Food – Uncovering
Five Major Factors to Hunger” will help you in attempting
to better understand reasons for hunger. The packet gives consideration
to five major issues that contribute to world hunger.
Conflict – You can’t grow food on the run!
Debt – You can’t grow food if you are growing
flowers for export!
Deforestation – You can’t grow food without
soil!
Gender Discrimination – You can’t eat if you
are ignored!
Poverty Cycle – You can’t eat if you don’t
have the means!
The packet provides you with information sheets, color posters,
reflection questions, resources list and suggestions on how you
can help alleviate world hunger.
For more information on this packet, hunger workshops or local
service opportunities that address hunger, contact Jon Nofziger
at youth@mccbc.com or call the MCC office in Abbotsford at 604-850-6639
or 1-888-622-6337 (non-local).
Not One Alone: Generations at Risk
25 minute video, grade 10 - Adult.
21 million people have died from AIDS. 42 million people are living
with HIV or AIDS in the world today. This video, these numbers
take on a personal face as we visit people with AIDS. Church workers
in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa put away their theological
differences to work together. They teach how AIDS is transmitted
and provide home based care groups to support families and communities
affected by AIDS, reducing not only physical suffering but also
emotional suffering, working to dispel the cultural stigma of
AIDS
Jesus
calls us to enter into people’s lives, joys and struggles
— and the MCC Resource Catalogue can be your link. 