Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Tim Shenk/Mennonite Central Committee

Dec. 1, 2008 issue

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  MCC and BIC Church respond to hunger in Zimbabwe

  AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee is supporting Zimbabwe’s Brethren in Christ Church in providing emergency food supplies to 23 high schools after a four-month delay imposed by the government because of political tensions.

  Zimbabwe is in the midst of economic and political crises. Unemployment and skyrocketing prices — with basic foods now costing hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwean dollars — have driven more than 3 million people to flee the country in recent years. Government and opposition political leaders have been deadlocked since March over a disputed presidential election.

Nov. 17, 2008 issue

• MCC sends aid, builds relations in Congo

  AKRON, Pa. – Mennonite Central Committee will provide $280,000 in aid to people affected by war in the eastern region of Congo, where escalating violence is driving hundreds of thousands from their homes.

Nov. 10, 2008 issue

• MCC launches multimillion-dollar appeal for southern Sudan

  AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee is launching a 10-year, multimillion-dollar campaign to help people in southern Sudan recover from a devastating civil war.

Oct. 13, 2008 issue

• MCC aids Laotians after flooding destroys crops

  AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee is planning to distribute about 20 metric tons of seeds to nearly 3,700 people in rural Laos whose crops were destroyed by widespread flooding.

Sept. 1, 2008 issue

• MCC launches three-year response to Myanmar cyclone

  YANGON, Myanmar — Mennonite Central Committee plans to provide more than $1.1 million in aid over three years to help people recover from Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, the southeast Asian nation also known as Burma.

Aug. 18, 2008 issue

• Ugandan speaks for abducted children

  AKRON, Pa. — Angelina Atyam speaks from experience when describing the human toll of the long-running conflict in northern Uganda: her daughter, Charlotte, was abducted at the age of 14 and held captive for nearly eight years by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army.

July 21, 2008 issue

• MCC finishes response to tsunami in Indonesia

  AKRON, Pa. — In the village of Ulee Tuy, Indonesia, 150 families who lost their homes in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami are celebrating the completion of their new houses, which Mennonite Central Committee helped build as a final project in its tsunami response.

July 7, 2008 issue

• Zimbabwe political violence puts MCC aid on hold

  AKRON, Pa. — A Mennonite Central Committee project to feed 2,700 students at high schools in rural Zimbabwe is on hold as MCC partner organizations report political violence throughout the country.

May 19, 2008 issue

• MCC’s partners able to reach Myanmar’s needy

  AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee is supporting partner organizations in meeting basic needs for tens of thousands of people affected by Cyclone Nargis in the southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

April 28, 2008 issue

• MCC ships food aid to Zimbabwe amid election uncertainty

  AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee is shipping 77 metric tons of wheat and soybeans to Zimbabwean communities where food has become scarce due to drought and economic turmoil.

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