This is a photo of a mason in Bangladesh building a low-cost latrine for a family in Saidpur. In the background a simple dwellings made of matting with thatch roofs. In 1983 MCC built and converted more than 400 latrines as part of its Saidpur sanitation program.
This is a photo of Chilean workers putting up walls on a house being rebuilt as part of MCC's housing construction program in Santa Clara. Hundreds of residents in this slum area near Santiago were left without housing after the May earthquake hit Chile.
This is a photo of a pre-school under construction, an MCC-assisted project in Dominica which erected the structure and later completed its roof. Workers are producing blocks to fill in the walls with an MCC-purchased block machine.
This is a photo of newly built, thatch-roof, temporary houses in the village of Antarajholi. The original village was completely washed away by floods.
This is a photo of the Peter Abrams house under construction in the Bergthal district, Saskatchewan. The men in the photo are (left to right): Johann Andres senior; his sons Gerhard Andres and Johann Andres; the home owner, Peter Abrams and Jacob Andres, another son of Johann senior. The boy standing on the fence is Aron Abrams.
(Left to right) Henry Patkau, Neill von Gunten, and John Zacharias lay a new carpet in the upstairs bedroom of the mission house at Matheson Island, Manitoba.
Neill von Gunten (right) and Henry Patkau are pulling up old linoleum and tile from the kitchen floor in the Native Ministries mission house in Matheson Island, Manitoba.