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Celebrating food around the world

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    Photo by Matthew Lester

    In a time of rising global food prices, MCC is working with people around the world to produce and share food. Paulo Carlos de Souza of the Million Cisterns Project holds a squash at the Cavalcante farm outside of Jatauba, Brazil. 

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    Photo by Matthew Lester

    Olga Podgorodnichenko washes fresh cherries in the rural Ukrainian village of Dolina. 

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    Photo by Jenna Stoltzfus

    A woman in Laos ladles rice paste with one hand while rolling pho noodles with the other hand. The rubbery pho will be unrolled onto a bamboo drying rack and put in the sun to dry. 

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    Photo by Brandon Thiessen

    In Kirundo province, Burundi, a reforestation worker receives a can of MCC ground turkey. 

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    Photo by Melissa Engle

    Willard Fleming stands behind tomato seedlings grown from seeds that MCC gave to Caney Creek Rehabilitation Center in Pippapasses, Kentucky. 

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    Photo by Melissa Engle

    In Moro Moro, Bolivia, Lucia Jimenez peels and washes potatoes and onions in preparation for lunch. 

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    Photo by Melissa Engle

    Kalpona Begum is boiling molasses for cake that she makes at her home in rural Bangladesh. Her husband Mohammad Iaqub Ali is raising and selling cattle, one, two and three at a time. He increased his income by using vaccinations and a feeding method introduced by MCC. 

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    Photo by Dan Marschka

    Freshly caught tongkol, a type of tuna, hangs on the door above a home in Aceh province, Indonesia. 

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    Photo by Melissa Engle

    Claudia Laurent, age 5, sips from her cup of porridge at Glory Mennonite Nursery School in Morogoro, Tanzania. 

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    Photo by Melissa Engle

    Fatma Musalam grows squash and snake cucumber on her land in the West Bank. An MCC partner organization, Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, provided her with seeds that produce well despite a lack of water. 

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    Photo by Cheryl Zook

    A woman roasts corn over a fire in Chad. 

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    Photo by Melissa Engle

    Candelaria Cucul Rax makes tortillas in her home in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 

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  • Great Lakes
  • Bangladesh
  • Burundi
  • Bolivia
  • Chad
  • Ethiopia
  • Guatemala
  • Indonesia
  • Tanzania
  • Ukraine
  • Food
  • food security