Mennonite Archival Information Database

Willard Ebersole working on a Kentucky home: MCC U. S. SWAP

CA MHC 280-161.0-002
Item
1984

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of MCC U. S. worker Willard Ebersole (left) and a friend working on a Kentucky home. This is a part of the housing repair and cleanup tasks to be done by youth teams in the Sharing With Appalachian People (SWAP) program of MCC U. S. This program offers week-long and weekend educational and service experiences in Harlan County, Ky.

Beach, Mark

Villages constructed after flood in Orissa State, India

CA MHC 280-70.0-001
Item
1980

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of newly built, thatch-roof, temporary houses in the village of Antarajholi. The original village was completely washed away by floods.

Unknown

Replacing the corrugated roof

CA MHC 280-192.0-005
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of (left to right): MCCers Harry Froese and Larry LaRash replacing the corrugated roof on a classroom at Dalo School in Nigeria.

Ford, Paul

Reconstruction in Chile after earthquake

CA MHC 280-165.0-002
Item
1985

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Chilean workers putting up walls on a house being rebuilt as part of MCC's housing construction program in Santa Clara. Hundreds of residents in this slum area near Santiago were left without housing after the May earthquake hit Chile.

Geiser, Charles

Keith Barr from Lancaster

CA MHC 280-73.0-001
Item
1980

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of MCC worker Keith Barr putting up a ceiling. It is one of the many skills that he uses in his work with Menno Housing.

Rinner, Amy

Jamaica

CA MHC 280-71.0-001
Item
1980

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of the repair and reconstruction crew of the Jamaica Mennonite Church posing with MCC worker Dan Norell.

Lapp, Ian

India

CA MHC 280-132.0-008
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of villagers in West Bengal completing a two-year culvert project for the Lodha people.

MCC

India

CA MHC 280-132.0-006
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

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.

Doerksen, Al

India

CA MHC 280-31.0-002
Item
1978

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of man working with cement on a building project in Mahatmajipuram.

Unknown

Guatemala

CA MHC 280-29.0-002
Item
1978

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of men working on a building project. Families in MCC-built houses in Guatemala see their monthly payments go to local projects like this "pila" where persons do the family laundry by dipping water from large concrete tanks into one of the separate sinks surrounding the tank.

Kauffman, Fred

Dominican Republic

CA MHC 280-86.0-001
Item
1981

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of men constructing a meetinghouse for the Evangelical Mennonite Conference congregation which grew out of reconstruction efforts in Juan Baron, Dominican Republic.

Frey, Neal

Dominican Republic

CA MHC 280-66.0-006
Item
1980

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a worker laying cement blocks at the construction project in Juan Baron, Dominican Republic.

Stauffer, LaMar

Dominica

CA MHC 280-66.0-002
Item
1980

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a pre-school under construction, an MCC-assisted project in Dominica which erected the structure and later completed its roof. Workers are producing blocks to fill in the walls with an MCC-purchased block machine.

Penner, Jim, 1924-2012