Working with farmers in Bangladesh
- CA MHC 280-45.0-003
- Item
- 1979
This is a photo of Duane Auch (centre) working with a local farmer in Bangladesh refining crop production.
Lenthal, Stephen
Working with farmers in Bangladesh
This is a photo of Duane Auch (centre) working with a local farmer in Bangladesh refining crop production.
Lenthal, Stephen
Women preparing wheat straw cards in Bangladesh
This is a photo of women sitting on the floor at a small bench and preparing wheat straw cards in their Mirpur, Bangladesh, home. The Mirpur wheat straw project provides primary income for 400 families in this slum on the northern edge of Dhaka, Bandladesh's capital city.
King, Jim
This is a photo of a woman wearing a sari, sitting outside a brick building. Beside her is a large metal pail.
An ornamental woven hanging.
Two women crafting gift cards in Bangladesh
This is a photo of two Bangladesh women sitting on the floor and carefully crafting gift cards using small strips of wheatstraw at the Mirpur Wheatstraw Centre. This is one of MCC's job creation projects to provide jobs and income for poor women of Bangladesh.
Dirks, Doug
Two boys who collection paper to support family (Bangladesh)
This is a photo of two boys who collect paper for the MCC paper plant at Feni, Bangladesh. They do not go to school but work all day gathering scrap paper to help support their families.
Hunsberger, Wilson A., 1919-2008
A woven hanging incorporating two containers that could hold two flower pots.
Subandi showing off his vegetable plot
This is a photo of Subandi showing off his vegetable plot to a crowd of people at the fence.
Smith, Steve
Staff at Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals in Bangladesh
This is a photo of staff at Gonoshasthaya ("People,s Health") Pharmaceuticals in Bangladesh prparing materials for the first production of paracetemol tablets. The non-profit factory is selling basic drugs at 20 to 50 percent lower than those of commercial manufacturers in Bangladesh.
Pritchard, Doug
This is a photo of Zahirun Nesa, one of the six employees of MCC's Shapla Soap Factory in Saidpur, Bangladesh, drying laundry soap in the sun. The bars of soap are set in rows in wooden trays.
Dirks, Doug
School kits given to children in Bangladesh
This is a photo of children, on the way to school in rural Bangladesh, proudly carrying their MCC school kits.
Sommers, Myron
This is a photo of a Bangladesh woman cleaning hemp fibres on device made of bamboo. These fibres are then twisted into ropes and twine in a Mennonite Central Committee job creation project.
Dirks, Doug
This is a photo of a Bangladesh farmer sitting in his rice field. The field is filled with sand instead of water.
Braun, Ron, 1950-
Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection
This photo is of a Biharis family in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. MCC was working with these refugees for immediate, as well as long-range, help.
Miller, Ralph