Mennonite Archival Information Database

Sift sand preparing a water storage container (Guatemala)

CA MHC 280-185.0
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of two Cakchiquel women sifting sand in preparation for building a water storage container at MCC Appropriate Technology Centre in Santa Maria Cauque, Guatemala.One man is pouring the sand into the sifter while another on is holding a bag of sand. This project received funding from European International Mennonite Organization.

Schiere, Jacob

Bishara Awad (West Bank)

CA MHC 280-179.0
Item
1985

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Bishara Awad, founder and president, standing in front of Bethlehem Bible College.

Bergen, Kathy, 1946-

Catholic Sisters on the 10th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war

CA MHC 280-178.0
Item
1985

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Catholic sisters, among other religious groups, marching in a parade marking the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam War's end. Crowds in the stands along the road are watching the parade.

Martin, Earl

House damaged by a counter-revolutionary guerrilla attack in Nicaragua

CA MHC 280-172.0
Item
1985

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of residents of Platanares surveying damage to a house caused by a December counterrevolutionary guerrilla attack on the town, which left eight dead, four wounded and two kidnapped. MCC provided roofing materials to families in this town who had been displaced by war against Nicaragua.

Schlabach, Gerald

Mukshan and MCC worker Mark Bauman

CA MHC 280-169.0
Item
1985

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of (left to right): Mukshan, a farmer who lives on the transmigration site in Mayoa, Indonesia and MCC worker Mark Bauman. They are sitting on a bench on a bare piece of ground. Behind them is a fence of bamboo, some wooden buildings, a dirt road and vegetation.

Martin, Earl

A woman carrying home olive seedlings in West Bank

CA MHC 280-163.0
Item
1984

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a West Bank woman carrying home olive seedlings, in a basket on her head, which she received through an MCC program. She is on a busy city street.

Dueck, Judith (Block), 1948-

Bob Burkholder talking with Lebanese family members

CA MHC 280-154.0
Item
1984

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Bob Burkholder, MCC country representative in Lebanon, talking with Lebanese family members in October 1984 as they put soil into plastic bags in which they will raise pine, cedar and cypress seedlings. These seedlings will be transplanted in late 1985.

Myers, Paul