September 2011
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MCC U.S. Washington Office offers $300 for top high school essay related to one of four select public policy issues.
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Mennonite Central Committee supported first training of the Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute that equipped participants with peacebuilding skills to use in their home communities.
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MCC supports teacher salaries and provides teacher training to the Hope School in Burundi, where marginalized Batwa are empowered, educated and respected.
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Young adults, who returned in July from 11 months of service with MCC’s Serving and Learning Together program, report ways they have grown and changed through this experience.
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MCC commissioned new workers for service in assignments in Canada, the United States and overseas.
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August 2011
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A message from sister organization, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) about Hurricane Irene
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A recent bicycle tour in Kenya that included a Canadian Olympian has given peace clubs in Kenya a welcome boost.
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Through Summer Service, a short-term leadership development program of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S., young adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds use their passions and talents to serve their communities.
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MCC response grows for ongoing crisis in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
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MCC and its partners offer immediate help and consider long-term solutions to perpetual flooding in Colombia.
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Through MCC’s partner organization Popular Aid for Relief and Development, MCC is helping Palestinian refugees rediscover composting as a way to save money and grow healthy produce.
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An immediate and extended response to the current drought and food crisis in East Africa is essential for limiting the vulnerability of millions looking for enough food to survive, said Bruce Campbell-Janz, director of MCC's Africa Department.
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July 2011
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MCC names Ruth Keidel Clemens and Willie Reimer to jointly administer MCC’s international program beginning Sept. 1, 2011.
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MCC asks for donations to support its response to people in East Africa suffering from the effects of drought and accompanying food crisis.
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As South Sudan independence approaches on July 9, MCC and its partners provide food and material resources to those displaced by violence in contested areas and encourage a peaceful transition.
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June 2011
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Bhekimpilo Moyo, from Zimbabwe is spending a year in Stouffville, Ontario through MCC's International Volunteer Exchange Program.
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Dialogue was the fifth of its kind, bringing together Shi’a Muslim scholars from Iran and Mennonite scholars from Canada and the U.S.
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MCC executive directors demonstrate the bridging relationship integral to the new partnership between MCC Canada and MCC U.S.
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Blurb: Ten Thousand Villages in the U.S. to be partner of MCC rather than wholly owned by MCC as operationally independent, nonprofit program.
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Booklet on sexual abuse in the church grew out of a desire to respond to the difficulties faced by survivors and churches in the aftermath of abuse by a church leader.
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Global Family, MCC’s education sponsorship program, supports technical training of seamstresses and tailors in Cambodia as an alternative source of income to farming and factory work.
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Gifts given to MCC to respond to March disasters in Japan will be channeled through trusted partners – Church World Service and the Anabaptist churches of Japan.
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Priscila Santana, of Brazil, describes her cross-cultural experience of working with girls at a home for students in Mozambique. She is a participant in Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network! (YAMEN!), a joint program of MCC and MWC.
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MCC, in partnership with other church-related organizations, continues to help the vulnerable people in Pakistan rebuild their lives.
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May 2011
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MCC East Coast supports efforts to assist Haitian immigrants seeking permission to live and work legally in the U.S.
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Website will enable present and future generations to connect with stories of past and current conscientious objectors.
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MCC commissioned 12 workers for service in assignments in Canada, the United States and overseas.
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April 2011
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Two individuals from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known to people outside the country as North Korea, visit MCC offices in Canada to strengthen connections between MCC and the DPRK’s Korea Canada Cooperation Agency.
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MCC helps small farmers in Bangladesh increase soil health and plant yield with compost made by worms and beneficial fungus.
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MCC provides training in conservation agriculture in a variety of African countries.
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