Access to water = opportunities for education

Water is life-giving, and in more ways than are sometimes apparent. Manteya Mamayio, a 13-year-old primary school student in Kenya, used to walk seven hours each day, after morning chores, to fill a 5-gallon container with water. Since the completion of a sand dam, sponsored by MCC and the Maasai Integrated Developments Initiative, she can now make the round-trip in three hours, allowing her to spend more time in school. Watch the video to learn more about Manteya and the impact of the sand dam in her region!

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I found hope at the U.S.-Mexico border

Laura Pauls-Thomas, MCC East Coast communications and event associate, had a chance to visit the MCC borderlands on a learning tour in October 2018. She writes, "If you've been following media coverage of the United States' southern border lately, you might be feeling helpless, perplexed, or even angry. I often feel the same way until I think of all of the individuals and aid organizations that I met and befriended in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands." Read her reflections here!

Lois Kreider works in the weaving studio of the Et Cetera shop in Newton, Kansas.

Building bridges with art

The late Lois Kreider was involved with MCC's early fair-trade project that would become Ten Thousand Villages. Combining her interest in fair trade with Thrift, she helped to start Bluffton Et Cetera Shop, the first store in the U.S. to sell SELFHELP Crafts and secondhand clothing and housewares for MCC. As her granddaughter, Madeline Kreider Carlson, was finishing her MCC term in Haiti where she too worked with artisans, she wrote about her Oma's passion. Read about Lois, Madeline and MCC's legacy of fair trade and thrift!

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Relief is distributed in Platkova, Russia, in 1923 — the carts having made the 10-mile journey from the train station to the Klubmikowo settlement. Following the First World War, the Russian Revolution and severe flooding in the Volga region, MCC worked to alleviate hunger in areas of Russia and Ukraine affected by a prolonged famine. MCC Archives

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