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This is a photo of two Bangladesh women sitting on the floor and carefully crafting gift cards using small strips of wheatstraw at the Mirpur Wheatstraw Centre. This is one of MCC's job creation projects to provide jobs and income for poor women of Bangladesh.

This is a photo of Razia holding a sleeping child. She has been able to operate a grocery shop with retained earnings from Mennonite Central Committee's Action Bag program in Saidpur, Bangladesh.

This is a photo of Nepali women sitting on the floor with their backs against a brick wall while knitting at their Wednesday afternoon class where they receive instruction, assistance and encouragement. About 30 women are members of the Himalayan Handknit project that MCC worker Ruth McCaslin leads. The women knit sweaters to earn money.

This is a photo of four Haitian women outside a house.

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 group of young women and one man holding a hat. They are posing among rocks on sloped ground, with trees and rough grass. This is possibly a school outing. The young women look to be dressed in a uniform. Four of the women are dressed differently so may be teachers. There are two lists of names on the back -- one under the heading "Gestorben" (died) and the other under "Verheiret" (married).
Died: Maria Wiens, Neta Peters, Susa Loewen, Liese Martens, Katja Klassen
Married: Tina Martens, Tina Hildebrand, Lena Wiebe, Katja Peters, Anna Andres, Lena Winter, Maria Wilms, Katja Thiessen, Katja Klassen.

This is a photo of MCC worker Becky Dudley having a meeting in an office, sitting at a table, with two women animators in Mombin Crochu.

This is a photo of a Salvadoran grandmother and child, victims of the civil war, making tortillas in camp for displaced persons near Guazapa, El Salvador.

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

This is a photo of women sitting on the floor at a small bench and preparing wheat straw cards in their Mirpur, Bangladesh, home. The Mirpur wheat straw project provides primary income for 400 families in this slum on the northern edge of Dhaka, Bandladesh's capital city.

This is a photo of two Hmong women sitting on short stools on the edge of a hard-packed alley, doing embroidery, in the Ban Nam Yao refugee camp in northeast Thailand. Traditional Hmong designs such as the snail (protection), heart (good health) and elephant's foot (wealth) are crafted into saleable items such as potholders and aprons for sale in North America.

This is a photo of three Lao women and a child in a refugee camp in Thailand. They are sewing traditional needlework. They are members of the Hmong tribe, who left Laos in large numbers because of unhappiness over Lao government policies.

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

This is a photo of Nasiima, standing in a crowd of children, with the goat she was able to purchase with retained earnings from the Mennonite Central Committeee's Action Bag program in Saidpur, Bangladesh.