Students like Mer Puok sew dignity kit base units in the sewing class in Loreto secondary school, an MCC partner in South Sudan. These base units are part of the reusable product system provided in the MCC-supplied dignity kits.
For the female students at Loreto Rumbek, MCC dignity kits are incredibly valuable. Store-bought products are prohibitively expensive and often hard to access, but the reusable and products in the kits mean girls and women don’t have to waste money on unsustainable solutions. The other items included in the dignity kit, like the soap and comb, are valuable personal hygiene items that are also expensive and hard to find. Even the bucket the kit comes in becomes a valuable storage container.
To learn more about dignity kits, visit mcc.org/get-involved/kits/dignity
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With the guidance of caretaker and trainer Nour Najdawi, Sufian Abdullah is learning to write using Braille typing at the Holy Land Institute for Deaf (HLID) in Salt, Jordan.
MCC supports HLID's unique and one-of-a-kind deafblind unit which is the first and only facility of its kind in Jordan and the region.
HLID aims to educate, train and provide care for deafblind children to enable them to fully participate in society.
 
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A Moment for MCC: You can assist MCC in providing urgent help! Reach families exhausted by conflict and crises in Ukraine and beyond.
 
This Thanksgiving, your gift of $28.80 can deliver an emergency food package to someone caught in conflict or disaster.
Each pack includes items like rice, oatmeal, and flour — enough to keep them fed and nourished for one month.
But that’s not all: thanks to a group of generous MCC donors, all gifts up to a total of $115,000 will be matched!
That means your Thanksgiving gift of $28.80 to feed one person in need becomes $57.60 to feed two people in need!
And what a gift that would be!
 
You can give by your offering. If by cash, designate the envelope “MCC Urgent Help.” If by cheque, make the cheque payable to the church and designate “MCC Urgent Help” on the memo line/envelope. By e-transfer, put “MCC Urgent Help” in the message box. Any questions? Our treasurer Lorraine would love to help.
 
You can also give directly at https://mcc.org/thanksgiving
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Huda Al Takatka spends up to four hours a day tending her wicking garden near the town of Beit Fajjar, West Bank, Palestine. “It doesn’t really need that much time,” she says, beaming her infectious smile. “I just like spending time there … with my loved ones.” Those include her husband, Muhammad, six children and 11 grandchildren.
 
For almost a year, she has been able to grow the fresh vegetables in her four garden boxes, placed beside a tiny citrus and fig orchard in her yard. With Muhammad out of work because a visual impairment, vegetables used to be something she couldn’t always afford.
“Now we can grow what we like,” she says, “and they are much better than what we find at the market.” She grows radishes, onions, cabbages, eggplant, spinach and tomatoes.
 
Huda is one of 20 gardeners in the Bethlehem governorate who have benefited from the wicking garden project of the Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ), a longstanding MCC partner that promotes responsible land development within the realities of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank. The MCC-funded pilot program not only boosts food security for low-income families, but also models a sustainable alternative for food production.
 
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https://mcc.org/our-stories/wicking-gardens-palestine