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S U P P L E M E N T T O T H E W I N N I P E G F R E E P R E S S | S A T U R D A Y , J U N E 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 A17 "In Manitoba, MCC works to promote positive political, social and economic change for Indigenous Peoples by supporting collaboration and relationship building between settlers and Indigenous people." CANADIAN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY Where faith and community matter Be part of the difference T hank you Mennonite Central Committee for more than a century of service and generosity creditunion.mb.ca Architectural Hardware Automatic Door Operators Security Innovations 800-230-5516 • ALLMAR.COM • LOCATIONS IN 12 CITIES ACROSS CANADA IN BUSINESS SINCE 1957 HARDWARE DIVISION 287 Riverton Avenue Winnipeg, MB R2L 0N2 (204) 668-1000 OVERHEAD DOOR DIVISION 405 Logan Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3A 0C7 (204) 779-1209 Hollow Metal/ Wood Doors & Frames Lockers & Miscellaneous Specialties Consulting, Installation & Service 1-204-326-2532 Serving Steinbach and Southern Manitoba Thank you MCC for the hope you spread world-wide. The crop of the field is always rich in hope. – Spanish proverb tallgrassbakery.ca Red Fife wheat field at Zeevalley Organic Farm. Photo by farmer Vern Zatwarnicki. For more information about MCC's ministry, visit mcccanada.ca Luis Norberto Mosquera dries cacao seeds on his farm in Colombia's Chocó region in 2018. He received technical assistance in cultivating and processing cacao and his farm is now used as a model for other farmers in the project. For MCC, the cacao project is a part of its work for peace – a peace that isn't just an absence of war and conflict, but a world where everyone has what they need for a good life. (Growing Hope Globally photo/Alex Morse) Guevara Shekhmos (left) and his sister Silava Seyhmus were displaced from their homes by conflict in Syria and in 2018 they secured sponsorship to resettle in Winnipeg. "When we're helping refugees, you change someone's life," says Maysoun Darweesh, MCC's coordinator for the Migration & Resettlement program in Manitoba. "You're giving them a chance to flourish, to start over. All of this leads to one path, a peaceful path, a better future." (MCC photo/Allison Zacharias) Participants practice listening skills during a peace camp session in Thalat village in Lao People's Democratic Republic in 2018. Volunteers who were trained through an MCC peace club, Mittaphab, which means friendship in Lao, led the camp. (MCC photo/Alouny Souvolavong) From July 26 – 28, 2019, Kokoms (grandmothers) from Split Lake, Easterville, Grand Rapids and Nelson House gathered at the Grand Rapids Culture Camp. Ten women came together and held conversations over the weekend on how to bring healing back to hydro-impacted communities. (MCC photo/Kerry Saner-Harvey) In 2018, a delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) visited a research farm in Carman, Manitoba to learn about agricultural practices. Chris Rice, MCC's representative for Northeast Asia at that time, called this opportunity to build relationships person-to-person "a gift on the pathway to peace." (MCC photo/Colin Vandenberg) From reconciliation and local advocacy to agricultural development and training, peace is woven throughout MCC's work.