“It felt like the roof was going to come right off.” That’s how Tara Babcock described the night Hurricane Fiona struck her home in Sydney, Cape Breton. As it was, the storm—which hit September 24, last year—tore shingles off the roof and...
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“As I sit here composing this e-mail, I am asking God to give me the words to adequately express our gratitude for all the help that your organization has provided. What you have done to help is so big, we do not have words available.” That’s...
Nick Hamm is a long-time volunteer with MDS and former Chair of the MDS Canada Ontario Unit. He played a key role in leading and organizing the response to Hurricane Fiona in Nova Scotia. Now that MDS’s work in Nova Scotia is complete this year, he...
Ten weeks, 179 tree clean-up jobs and 28 roof repair or rebuild jobs. That’s what 133 MDS Canada volunteers did this fall in Antigonish and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in response to Hurricane Fiona. The hurricane struck the province September 24,...
In addition to causing physical damage, natural disasters like Hurricane Fiona—which struck Nova Scotia September 24—expose other needs in a community. Sometimes those needs are uncovered by Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers. That’s...
When John Peters, principal of the Old Colony Christian School in Charing Cross, Ontario heard Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada needed volunteers in Nova Scotia for clean-up work after Hurricane Fiona, he right away thought of his students...
They called it their Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) mobile command centre. “It” is Jan Joyce’s 2019 Subaru Crosstrek, a moving office that enabled her and Melissa Jaeger to log about 1,000 kilometres/600 miles in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island...
Making trails, building a new rope course, repairing cabins and enjoying a week in beautiful New Brunswick—these are the things awaiting youth groups that want to do service with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada this summer. “We are...
2020-21 was a hard year for MDS Canada. Once again, the pandemic was the big story. It curtailed most of our responses in this country and prevented Canadians from going to the U.S. to volunteer. But it didn’t stop us from doing what we could to...
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