Manitoba Council on International Cooperation

Manitobans working together as global citizens.

MCIC is a coalition of organizations involved in international development who are committed to respect, empowerment, self-determination, and social justice. READ MORE …

Latest news from MCIC

  • MCIC Annual General Meeting Posted June 1st 2010

    This year’s Annual General Meeting will take place June 17 at the Canadian Mennonite University Chapel - South Campus. Registration will begin at 6:30 pm and the meeting will run from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. The guest speaker this year is Gerry Barr, President/CEO of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC), who will speak on ‘The State of the International Development Sector’.

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  • IDE’s Cambodia Program Wins Nestle Prize Posted June 1st 2010

    IDE has been awarded the first Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value for an innovative program in Cambodia. In the past two years, IDE’s Farm Business Advisor program has enabled 60 rural Cambodian entrepreneurs to start small agricultural distribution and consulting businesses, which in turn have helped 4,500 small-scale farm households increase their net income by 27 percent or US $150.

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  • Osu Children’s Library Fund Wins International Award Posted April 7th 2010

    MCIC would like to congratulate its long time member The Osu Children’s Library Fund, which was selected as one of two winners of the 2010 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award.

    The award will be presented this September at the 32nd IBBY Congress in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Osu Children’s Library Fund Director Kathy Knowles and Joanna Felih, the organization’s first librarian, have been asked to attend the award ceremony.

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