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Feb. 13 issue

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  Women’s advocacy era ends

  AKRON, Pa. — In 1971 the Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section took a bold action: It invited constituent women’s organizations to send representatives to its meetings at a time when few women served on decision-making boards within Mennonite circles.

  Two years later, women attending the Peace Section board meeting in Ottawa requested focused attention on women’s issues. What evolved were women’s concerns staff positions, first in the U.S. and then in Canada, which together addressed issues within MCC offices, international program and constituent churches. The position was titled director of women’s advocacy most recently in MCC U.S.

Feb. 6 issue

• MCC staff in Pennsylvania dealt layoffs

  As Mennonite Central Committee’s five-year revisioning and restructuring process ends, dozens of employees, many of them in Akron, Pa., will lose their jobs.

• MCC relief reaches Somali refugees who may not be going home any time soon

  AKRON, Pa. — When MCC representative Dan Leonard visited Dollo Ado refugee camp in late December, he was struck by the reality that the 150,000 Somali refugees who found safety and food in Ethiopia were not going home any time soon.

Jan. 16 issue

• MCC Ontario plans to triple facility size

  Mennonite Central Committee Ontario has big plans for a new building that will more than triple the size of its current one.

• Making connections for 35 years

  DURANGO COLONY, Bolivia — Aganetha Bueckert left behind many treasured possessions in Mexico when she and her family moved to this closed, church-governed Mennonite colony in the municipality of Charagua about 170 miles south of Santa Cruz.

Dec. 19, 2011 issue

• MCC responds to Cambodian floods

  AKRON, Pa. — As the worst flooding in a decade begins to recede in Cambodia, the work of obtaining food and clean water and the long-term rebuilding of livelihoods is under way with assistance from Mennonite Central Committee.

Nov. 28, 2011 issue

• 1st Philadelphia MCC festival a multiethnic celebration

  PHILADELPHIA — The first Mennonite Central Committee Benefit Festival in Philadelphia brought together almost two dozen Anabaptist-related congregations in the Delaware Valley and raised $20,135.

Oct. 31, 2011 issue

• MCC canner will travel to 32 sites

  AKRON, Pa. — During a late-summer visit to Haiti, Mennonite Central Committee’s meat canning crew saw the priorities of MCC’s work — relief, development and peace — in action.

Oct. 24, 2011 issue

• East Africa drought response expands

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Mennonite Central Committee’s response to the drought and food crisis in East Africa continues to expand, totaling more than $4.6 million through Oct. 6.

Oct. 17, 2011 issue

• MCC supports teaching of traditional skills in Laos

  AKRON, Pa. — Fourth-graders, arranged in three groups around well-worn desks, concentrate as they ply knives to split green bamboo into strips. Later, they will weave the lengths into rice-storage baskets.

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