Come learn about Development and Alternatives to Migration through visiting MCC’s work and partners in Guatemala. The Learning Tour will also focus on food security, deportation issues, human trafficking, and Guatemalan culture and community.
Positions are still available with the SWAP (Sharing with Appalachian People) program to serve as summer staff.
Sarah Adams, MCC Country Representative in Lebanon, shares her reflections on working amidst the complex realities in the Middle East.
MCC worker Nate Howard, of Muncie, Ind., helps farmers in San Marcos, Guatemala find ways to support their families closer to home and not have to resort to seasonal or permanent migration to earn a living.
As the weather gets warmer, anticipation is building for the MCC relief sales that are an annual tradition throughout the United Sates and Canada.
Calling all youth groups, Sunday school classes, schools, families and friends: Recent shipments of relief kits to Syrian refugees in Jordan have depleted the supply that Mennonite Central Committee keeps in reserve; please help us restock to be able to act quickly in a crisis or disaster. To see how many towels, tubes of toothpaste and other items are needed in each kit, and to find a drop-off location, visit mcc.org/kits/relief. Also, your gifts of money are urgently needed to respond to the crisis in the region, along with your prayers for peace. See mcc.org/middleeastcrisis.
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