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This photo is of a farmer plowing his field with oxen. The description on the back says,"Plows using animal traction are popular appropriate technology products in Bolivia."

This photo is of the graduates of the nine-month health promoters class, with their teachers, in Bolivia. Of the thirteen students in the photo, three are male and ten are female. The instructors are shown in the second row. Starting from the right and going towards the left are: Geraldine Lehman Mumaw, Jeannie Osmann Loucks, and Linda Yoder Lehman.

This photo is of two men at work building a play area for children in Ramallah. One man is piling up some sand/dirt and the other is getting ready to pour something onto the pile. There is low stone wall behind the men and behind that are some trees and buildings. A set of swings is on the right side of the photo.

This photo is of two men adding a layer of concrete to the top of a low stone wall along the street in Ramallah. A woman is standing behind the wall and is watching them. There are some tall trees behind the wall, as well as lower trees beyond that.

This photo is of men building a dam in Burkina Faso. The workers are young and the work is done by hand. In the centre is an unidentified MCC worker. On the right side is a man holding a bow and arrows and watching for some form of danger.

This photo is of Carolyn Miller who is checking the needlework at the MCC center in Israel. Working with her are Mirium and Fedwa, workers at the center.

This photo is Cecil Graber (right) with a Mexican farmer at Atlacomulco in Mexico. The farmer is feeding a pig. Graber is the Latin America Program advisor for MCC.

This photo is of the extended Cesar Castellon family from Guatemala. They were the first Central American refugee family to come to Canada.

This photo is of William T. Snyder, executive secretary, presenting C. N. Hostetter Jr. with a certificate of recognition, honouring him for his fifteen years of service as chairman of MCC. H. Ernest Bennett, the new chaiman looks on.

This photo is of a teacher and three students in Chad. The students are sitting around a table. A typewriter can be seen on a desk behind the table on the right of the side of the photo. The students are using material from an MCC lending library.

This photo is of a group of three men standing around a chain saw. Russell Stauffer, a volunteer from Fredericktown, Ohio, is on the right side of the photo. He is showing San Julian colonists in Bolivia how to file the chain in a chain saw maintenance class.

This photo is of Mark Yoder and Lewis Yoder presenting William Snyder with a check for MCC. The description on the back says, "Mark Yoder, chairman of the Big Vally relief Committee near Belleville, Pa., and Lewis Yoder, a committee member presented William Snyder, executive secretary of MCC with a check for $12, 500 on May 16. They also donated three hammermills."

This photo is of a small child in Indonesia. The photo is taken outdoors. The child is reaching to touch a leaf on a shrub/tree which is partly visible on the right side of the photo. The child is dressed in a long shirt over a pair of pants and is wearing a small bracelet on the right wrist.
Text on the back says: "Today in Indonesia many more children live because of modern medicine, but food production has not kept up with population growth. Thus family planning is being stressed as a way to break the cycle of over-population, hunger and poverty."

This photo is of two children in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. A young girl is holding her younger brother. On the left side of the photo are more children.

This photo is of refugees getting water from a pump in East Pakistan. The description on the back says, "There is water everywhere as it rains every day. But clean water is available only from the pumps put in by the Indian government for the refugees."