This is a photo of several run-down buildings on the left and a new home on the right. The new home is the result of combined efforts of several organizations. C. O. A. P., which provides financial counseling and quality low-cost construction, enables poor people in southeastern Kentucky to have adequate shelter. MCC U. S. worker Bill Braun of Dallas, Ore., is director of C. O. A. P.
This is a photo of (left to right): Kevin Neuhouser and Marian Neuhouser standing in the doorway of their house watching two young residents of the "favela" play in the street. Their work surrounds them in the close living quarters they share with others in the shantytown.
This is a photo of a HOMES crew building a three-bedroom house near Neon, Ky. One man is standing on the ground using a hammer and another man is kneeling on the deck, watching.
This is a photo of two men and a boy building a shelter with adobe bricks. They are of the thousands of Nicaraguans who have fled the U. S.-sponsored counter-revolutionary activity near the Nicaraguan-Honduran border.
This is a photo of crude dwellings made of corrugated metal. The people in the photo are victims of the April 20 fire in Geneva Camp, a Bihari refugee camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
This is a photo the crumbling mudblock walls of homes in Chad. During the 1982 war in Chad, looters took roofs, windows and doors, leaving the walls vulnerable to the rains. An interchurch committee, with help from international donors including MCC, helped families rebuild.
This is a photo of an elderly with a cane standing outside her new home which was built in the MCC earthquake reconstruction project. She lost her home in the 1985 Mexico earthquake.
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.
This is a photo of a thatch-roofed house in Mgwali with numbers painted on the door, signaling that the house will be dismantled as part of the relocation of Mgwali villagers.
This is a photo of a family standing outside one of the 99 houses, at a village in Orissa State, India, built with MCC help following a disastrous flood in September, 1980.
This is a photo of two of the houses in the reconstructed village of Bethlehem in Andra Pradesh, India. Villagers, MCC and Village Reconstruction Organization worked together on this project.
This is a photo of villagers standing outside their recently-constructed round, thatch roofed houses in Garissa, Kenya. MCC provided funds for a housing project for 250 families who lost their homes during fighting in 1980.
This is a photo of a family of three standing in front of their new house in Ciudad Guzman. Many houses were destroyed in last September's earthquake and Mexico City Mennonites, Mennonite colonists and MCC worked on a joint project to build new house for those who were left homeless.