This photo is of three young El Salvadorian Children. A make-shift camp for displaced persons is visible in the background.

This is a photo of a Salvadoran boy standing in front of a sign protesting fighting in El Salvador. This boy has lived through six years of civil war in his country.

This is a photo of participants in an MCC study tour to Central America walking in San Salvador. Along with some unidentified people are (left to right): James Gingerich of Moundridge, Kan.; Blake Ortman, MCC worker in El Salvador; Ruth Brunk Stoltzfuz of Harrisonburg, Va. (far back); Eber Dourte of Dillsburg, Pa.; Jake Letkemann of Winnipeg, MB; Lawrence Chiles of Lancaster, Pa and Werner Kroeker of San Jose, Calif.

This is a photo of a determined Salvadoran peasant with his home in the background. Farmers such as he are a sign of hope as they plant and harvest their corn in war-torn El Salvador.

This is a photo of a Salvadoran refugee mother standing by a counter stacked with canned food.She is preparing food for malnourished children in a feeding centre near San Salvador. An inter-church food aid program, which has distributed MCC beef and other donated food, is helping 60,000 refugees.

This is a photo of a refugee girl eating food donated through the El Salvador inter-church food program.

This is a photo of three children in a camp for displaces persons in El Salvador. They cannot remember a time when their country was at peace. The U. S. government wants to send $60 million to buy more guns. Church leaders are calling for dialogue and negotiations between the government and the opposition forces.

This is a photo of a displaced Salvadoran mother, victim of the civil war, giving her child a drink of milk at the nutrition centre set up by the Beachy Amish church and Mennonite Central Committee in Guazapa, El Salvador. The Swiss Mennonite Church Christmas project provided funding to support the Guazapa project for one year.

This is a photo of a peasant woman and her children in front of their new adobe brick house in La Florida. As a result of the massacre in which her husband was killed she fled from the cooperative and was last seen in a displaced persons' camp in eastern El Salvador.

This is a photo of a man holding a naked child with more children behind him. In the background is a clothesline with laundry and simple houses. These people are some of the 600 refugees living in Guazapa, El Salvador. The local Beachy Amish Mennonite Church, along with Amish Mennonite Aid and MCC, is the only group aiding refugees in this location.

This is a photo of MCCer John Lamb talking with Salvadoran owner of a new house built with MCC help. Alejandro, supervisor of the project in San Jose Guayabal, is looking on.

This is a photo of a Salvadoran grandmother and child, victims of the civil war, making tortillas in camp for displaced persons near Guazapa, El Salvador.

This is a photo of John Lamb talking to displaced persons in camp near San Salvador.The houses behind have tin roofs. In the distance there is a hill.