It was a bright, clear day as Chris Freur and his father, Ralph, watched bales of hay being loaded into a trailer on their farm in Smithville, Ont. The donated hay, all 50 bales of it, was destined for Saskatchewan through MDS Hay West, headed to the...
For Bradley and Virginia Walker, livestock farmers in Endeavour, Saskatchewan, this year’s weather was a disaster. “The rain was so patchy,” said Bradley. “Some places got good rain, we got nothing.” The lack of rain meant they couldn’t...
When Bonnie Lapointe saw the damage caused by the severe windstorm that struck her Ontario home on September 7, she cried. “I had never seen anything like that,” she said of all the felled trees that littered her small acreage near Kingsbridge...
Nine years ago, farmers in Saskatchewan sent hay to drought-stricken livestock producers in Ontario through Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada. Now farmers in Ontario are preparing to repay their generosity the same way. “Farmers in...
“A derelict house has become a home.” That’s what Dan Driedger, Executive Director of MennoHomes in Waterloo Region, Ont., said about how volunteers from Mennonite Disaster Service Ontario made it possible for a Syrian refugee family of five...
In light of news about unmarked graves of children at former residential schools in B.C., Saskatchewan and other parts of the Canada, the work of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) at the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Indigenous Neighbours office...
MDS volunteers work on renovations at the MCC Indigenous Neighbours office in Timmins, Ont. A joint release from Mennonite Disaster Service and Mennonite Central Committee Doing Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer work in Canada during a...
MDS volunteers (l to r), Paul Steckle, Andrew Weber, Glenn Bowman, Glenn Weber and Dan Bauman begin work on renovating the northern home of MCC Ontario’s Indigenous Neighbours Program. MCC Photo. Two years after working together on a project to...
Caption for photo: The derelict house on Mill St. being rehabilitated by MDS for MennoHomes. As soon as MennoHomes won a house in the Region of Waterloo housing lottery in December, Executive Director Dan Driedger knew what he was going to do—...
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