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Orphan children cared for by Katharina Schellenberg.

Children smile with their Christmas Bundles, Taipei Blind Children’s School, Taiwan.

Children compare the contents of their Christmas Bundles, Taipei Blind Children’s School, Taiwan. Original label: “Comparing notes. Wonder what the little fellow in back is thinking about.”

Children examine the contents of their Christmas Bundles, Taipei Blind Children’s School, Taiwan. Original label: “Nimble fingers quickly explore the contents of each gift, feeling the cloth, and even comparing the soap by smelling.”

Children in lines at the Taipei Blind Children’s School, Taiwan. Each holds a Christmas Bundle. Original label: “Such a picture doesn’t need words of explanation”

Handing out Christmas Bundles to children at the Taipei Blind Children’s School, Taiwan. Original label: “This is Christmas Bundle Distribution time at the Taipei Blind Children’s School.”

Distribution of Christmas Bundles to children from an orphanage, Taiwan. Two of the adults are likely June Graber (second from left) and Glen Graber (second from right). Perhaps the same location as photo 16 (compare windowpanes). 1961 label: “Christmas Bundle distribution to children at Christmas time. 981 bundles were sent to Formosa for Christmas 1960” Handwritten: “CCF orphanage”

Two girls smile holding their Christmas bundles, Taiwan. A boy peers at the camera from behind them. 1959 label: “Taiwan - Christmas, 1958 / Any doubt that Christmas bundles bring joy? Just look at these happy Taiwan youngsters. Although MCC no longer administers the Taiwan program, it continues to send Christmas bundles to the orphans—760 bundles were sent in 1958. MCC also supplies one worker, Roy Habecker, (Washington Boro, Pa.), to assist in mobile clinic work. [Stamp on label: Mar 9 1959]”

Glen Graber and others hand out Christmas Bundles to children, Taiwan. Chairs, a pulpit, and a piano/organ can be seen. Handwritten label: “Glen Graber – Taiwan Xmas Bundle Distribution”

Children sit around a decorated Christmas tree with Christmas Bundles and other gifts, Taiwan. Handwritten label: “Taiwan”

A Paraguayan woman washes her clothes in a small patch of shade. A small child on the left puts something into her mouth. 1970 label: “Paraguayan woman washing her clothes in the shade."

A medical worker from the Mobile Eye Clinic examines a child’s eyes, Taiwan. The back of the Mobile Eye Clinic truck and a table full of medical implements fill much of the frame. Original label: “Well trained native doctors and nurses also take part in the program of systematically examining all the school children’s eyes and giving treatment. The children are also given medicine to take home and continue the treatment. Thus the American Foundation for Overseas Blind gives out help that is far-reaching, reaching into humble homes in lonely places of the world where little children need help to prevent blindness.”

Children stand in line to be treated by the Mobile Eye Clinic in Taiwan. The Mobile Clinic workers sit and stand around three tables set up in front of the Mobile Clinic truck. Trees and a wooden roof can be seen behind the truck, and a mountain is in the background. Original label: “The Mobile Eye Clinic provided by the American Foundation for Overseas Blind at work in Ekadosan, a village on the East Coast of Formosa. In the school there of two hundred children, eighty percent were found to have trachoma. The school children line up and the doctor examines them, and their treatment is given to them by the nurses.”