Botswana

US MCUSAA X/068
Collection
1911-2018

Official records of Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission, a missionary organization with joint support from several Mennonite and Anabaptist-related denominations. Originally founded as the Congo Inland Mission in 1911, the organization changed its name to Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission in 1972 and expanded its ministry to include Lesotho, Botswana, South Africa, and Burkina Faso. These records are divided into the following series:

1.) Minutes, Reports, and Administrative Records

2.) Financial Records

3.) Personnel Records

4.) Regional Records

5.) Partner Organizations and Ecumenical Relations

6.) Audiovisual Materials

7.) History, Manuscripts, and Publications

Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission

Arlene Janzen, Missionary Botswana

CA MHSS 992-356
Item
August 1983

Part of Saskatchewan Valley News Photograph Collection

Arlene Janzen of Rosthern, Saskatchewan. Assignment: Botswana

King, Jim (MCC)

Botswana

CA MHC 280-105.0-015
Item
1982

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Jay Aeschliman loading medicines in a Flying Mission plane. He is being observed by a woman and a number of children.

MCC

Botswana

CA MHC 280-65.0-007
Item
1980

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Larry Fisher, second from left, and officials opening a new borehole, providing a water supply for people in a farming area of Botswana.

Eby, John

Botswana

CA MHC 280-84.0-012
Item
1981

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of MCCer Lucille Teichert is looking on as a Motswana teacher conducts a literacy class in Pitseng. They are sitting outside on the grass.

Eby, John

Botswana

CA MHC 280-105.0-017
Item
1982

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Rhonda Yoder helping choir students find their seats during the dedication of the Pudulogong Blind Centre.

Regier, Sara

Botswana

CA MHC 280-105.0-016
Item
1982

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of MCCer Luke Myers, holding a watermelon, in a corn field at the demonstration farm at Pitseng, Botswana.

Eby, John

Botswana

CA MHC 280-164.0-004
Item
1985

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a man with a sledgehammer poised above a piece of metal that MCCer Phil Copeland is holding . Two men are watching the proceeding. Copeland works at Palapye Dryland Crop Demonstration Farm in Botswana.

Copeland, Kristin

"Buy a brick" volunteers in Botswana

CA MHC 280-182.0-016
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of two "buy a Brick" volunteers helping to rebuild a house that was bombed in Botswana.

Babcock, Shirley

Eugene Thieszen working on an airplane engine (Botswana)

CA MHC 280-182.0-015
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of MCCer Eugene Thieszen working on an airplane engine. Thieszen works with Flying Missions in Botswana.

Roth, Lynn

Girl from the Bushman tribe of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-1710
Item
1967

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Used in CM 15-35-1. Headshot of a girl from the Bushman tribe of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, her face streaked with a mixture of ash & water. An essay on this tribe would be part of the "Africa evening" program on ABC TV

Newman, Marvin

Learning to sew in Botswana

CA MHC 280-126.0-007
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Beth Weisbrod teaching sewing skills to Humbukushu village women. The women are sitting on the ground and the hand crank sewing is set on a couple of blocks.

Weisbrod, Ben

MCC Health kit received in Botswana

CA MHC 280-25.0-010
Item
1978

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of school children in Botswana brushing their teeth using materials from MCC health kits.

Greenhow, Martha

Randy Ewert helping Tsaawe village men (Botswana)

CA MHC 280-182.0-014
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Randy Ewert (on truck) helping Tsaawe village men load fencing materials on to a pickup truck. The fence, which is nearly constructed, will keep cattle from neighbouring farms off village land.

Hardenbrook, Jill