In response to a church bombing, MCC partner Forum Across Religions and Groups immediately initiated a response to quell potential violence, followed by weeks of trauma healing activities.
Through a quilting effort begun with MCC support, women in the community of Mampuján, Colombia document the horrors of armed conflict, their memories of home and their Afro-Colombian heritage.
As MCC plans the next steps in its multiyear response to the Haiti earthquake, MCC medical teams and structural engineers are providing immediate assistance, relief kits and other supplies are being distributed and more aid is being shipped.