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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.

This is a photo of women in Mirpur making straw art pictures. MCC has helped impoverished Bangladeshi women become self-sufficient through its job creation programs.

This is a photo of women in Bangladesh making straw art pictures.

This is a photo of women in Saidpur, Bangladesh, sewing patchwork blankets which MCC distributes to schools, hospitals and orphanages throughout Bangladesh.

This is a photo of Barbara Brubaker (on the right wearing dark glasses and a white cap) watching the distribution of food in a Somalian refugee camp.

This is a photo of five Salvadoran refugee women outside a thatched dwelling in the Valley of Peace settlement. One hundred Salvadoran farming families live in this UNHCR refugee resettlement village in Belize.

This is a photo of a Brazilian mother and her two children. The Brazilian government has begun a major campaign promoting breast-feeding.

This is a photo of a Brazilian peasant mother walking home, barefoot on a dirt road, after a hard day of work in a rich landowner's sugar cane fields. Many farmers do not own enough land to grow their own food and so must hire out at low wages to feed their families.

This is a photo of church women of Maputo, Mozambique, sitting on the ground under a tree and hand-sewing clothing for displaced people in their country.

This is a photo of women and children behind bars at the Suan Phlu Detention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand, where some 600 people are being held for Thai immigration violations.

This is a photo of a displaced Salvadoran mother, victim of the civil war, giving her child a drink of milk at the nutrition centre set up by the Beachy Amish church and Mennonite Central Committee in Guazapa, El Salvador. The Swiss Mennonite Church Christmas project provided funding to support the Guazapa project for one year.

This is a photo of (left to right): unidentified student, teacher Mrs. Nellie Chingobe, teacher MCCer Amy Williams of Claremont, Calif., and another unidentified student doing needlework. The two women teach at the Livingston YWCA Training Project for young women in Livingston, Zambia.

This is a photo of an Egyptian mother and child at a women's training centre of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

This is a photo of a group of women who are graduates of a typing course for Marka refugees in Jordan.

This is a photo of a woman squatting on the ground behind a large bowl, grating a spice into the bowl. Behind her are cabinet-type solar dryers used to dry ginger, turmeric, coriander and red chili peppers. These spices, an essential part of Bengali cooking, are sold in Bangladesh and to alternative trading organizations in Europe.