This is a photo of bags of Canadian wheat being unloaded from the ship "Arafura Sea" at Massawa Port in Ethiopia. This wheat, donated by MCC, will be distributed to displaced families in Eritrea and Tigray.
Braght collected his martyr stories from a wide variety of sources, not all of them historically reliable. He described the execution of Matthew, traditional author of the first Gospel, in Ethiopia. Jan Luyken illustrated it with this etching.
This is a photo of (left to right): Beyene Mulatu, worker with Mennonite Mission in Ethiopia, and a representative of the Southern Baptist Church in Ethiopia are standing in front of stacked bags of Michigan beans shipped by MCC to the Northern Shoa region in 1985.
This is a photo of a large group of people, some with piles of clothing in front of them. Clothing was promised for those from one temporary shelter near Goba, Ethiopia. On distribution day ten shelters were assembled, representing a total population of 10,000. Each shelter received one-tenth of the clothing available.
This is a photo of an Ethiopian girl as she gets ready to leave the relief centre in Wello province in Ethiopia. She is holding an MCC blanket and in the background are stacked containers of MCC cooking oil. Most relief centres in Ethiopia are slowing down or closing operations since more local food is available because of improved harvests. International aid agencies, including MCC, are now concentrating on beginning development projects.
This is a photo Assefa Ketema (right), program director for the MKC development board, and P. T. Yoder, EMBMC missionary, inspecting a crop in Ethiopia.
This is a photo of (left to right): John Hostetler, 12-year-old Ethiopian boy who lost both his parents to the famine and Beyene Mulato, an employee of Mennonite Missions in Ethiopia. The boy is wrapped in an MCC blanket . They sitting on boxes on a rocky piece of land. A man on the right is watching them. In the background are some people, a shed, a fence made of poles and some tents.
This is a photo of (left to right): an Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture agronomist and Ken Litwiller, Mennonite Mission in Ethiopia worker with the Gerado Catchment Rehabilitation Project, selecting sorghum seeds for germination test. The seeds were distributed to Ethiopian farmers March 31.