Lessons from cholera in Haiti / guest Cate Friesen
Relief, development and podcast
Release Date: 05/19/2020
Holiday food traditions around the world
Relief, development and podcast
Stories from the MCC global community about how they fill their bellies and nourish their spirits during this season.
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Increasing local food security in India / guest MCC project officer Pabitra Paramanya
Relief, development and podcast
On this episode we look at food insecurity in India and how MCC partners are working alongside rural farmers to increase access to food for their families. We talk to MCC project officer Pabitra Paramanya about this work, and how partners help farmers try new methods and increase their yields. We also hear a story from Manki Kashyap, a participant who's family gained food security as a result of these projects.
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Disaster response to Haiti earthquake 2021 / Guests MCC staff Paul Shetler Fast and Muriel Chaperon
Relief, development and podcast
On this episode we look at the recent earthquake in Haiti, hearing about the diverse needs in the affected communities. We talk to Paul Shetler Fast about the first distribution of relief and see what a long term response might be. We also talked to MCC staff Muriel Chaperon about the importance of getting relief to women as well as responding to the trauma.
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Peace and development in Colombia / guest MCC project coordinator Sara Melgarejo
Relief, development and podcast
On this episode we unpack the importance of integrating peace and development in Colombia, a place with a long history of armed conflict.
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Honouring treaties as peacebuilding / guest elder Adrian Jacobs
Relief, development and podcast
Featuring the story of the Two Row Wampum belt and guest Adrian Jacobs, who is Ganosono of the Turtle Clan, Cayuga Nation of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy. He joins us to talk about how his people are asserting sovereignty and fighting for the land that is rightfully theirs, according to the original treaties.
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Relationship building in Palestine and Israel / guests learning tour participants Mike and Linda Shantz
Relief, development and podcast
Amal Nassar, a Palestinian woman from Tent of Nations in the West Bank, is committed to peace with neighbouring settlements even as they face constant pressure to leave their land.
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Peace clubs in Zambia / guest peace coordinator Issa Ebombolo
Relief, development and podcast
While in prison in Zambia, Zebron Mwale found his attitude around reconciliation radically transformed after joining a peace club.
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Peace clubs in Zambia / guest peace coordinator Issa Ebombolo
Relief, development and podcast
While in prison in Zambia, Zebron Mwale found his attitude around reconciliation radically transformed after joining a peace club.
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COVID-19 at the border / guest border and migration coordinator Katherine Smith
Relief, development and podcast
This episode we explore how COVID-19 is affecting people crossing borders as they navigate an already complex and often unsafe system. Featuring a story from Josefa (real name not used for security reasons), who is seeking asylum to the United States after fleeing her home in Venezuela. Host Scott Campbell also interviews Katherine Smith, the border and migration coordinator for MCC's West Coast office.
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Gender and COVID-19/ guest humanitarian response coordinator Annie Loewen
Relief, development and podcast
Etaferaw Anke in Ethiopia shares a story about how COVID-19 has impacted her clothing business, making it difficult for her to provide for herself and her daughter.
info_outlineOn the first episode of this new podcast, MCC staff Annalee Giesbrecht and Paul Fast share the story of how, several years ago, MCC partners contributed to the elimination of cholera cases in two remote communities in Haiti. The two talk about how these lessons can be applied to a COVID-19 response.
Professional storyteller Cate Friesen joins host Scott Campbell to talk about her work, some of the influential people she's met along the way, and how holding a human brain shaped the way she understands storytelling.
MCC worker Wendy Vado in Nicaragua ends the episode with her story of a "magic hammock."