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Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection Refugees
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Belize

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.

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Children in El Salvador

This is a photo of three children in a camp for displaces persons in El Salvador. They cannot remember a time when their country was at peace. The U. S. government wants to send $60 million to buy more guns. Church leaders are calling for dialogue and negotiations between the government and the opposition forces.

Ortman, Blake

Displaced people El Salvador

This is a photo of a peasant woman and her children in front of their new adobe brick house in La Florida. As a result of the massacre in which her husband was killed she fled from the cooperative and was last seen in a displaced persons' camp in eastern El Salvador.

Hofer, Philip

Displaced people in El Salvador

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.

Hofer, Joy

Hieu Nguyen and Don Sensenig

This is a photo of (left to right): Hieu Nguyen, Vietnamese refugee and Don Sensenig of MCC U. S. Immigration & Refugee Program. Nguyen donated her time to clean and stack 7,000 to 10,000 bricks at the new SELFHELP Crafts warehouse in Akron, Pa.

Beach, Mark

Honduras

This is a photo of two old camp veterans sitting on the ground with their backs against a tarp. The suffering these men have endured in fleeing their homes and now living in crowded refugee camps shows on their faces.

Frey, Neal

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