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This is a photo of a young boy and a pig inside a fence in Hmung village, Laos. The fence is made out of bomb shells left over from the United States' secret war on this tiny country in southeast Asia from 1964 to 1969.
Gingerich, Ray
This is a photo of a man operating the specially designed tractor to clear munitions from the Plain of Jars in Laos. MCC purchased this tractor.
Martin, Earl
This is a photo of students from the Fa Ngum School helping a cooperative in Dong Xang, Laos dig a canal.
Hess-Yoder, John
This is a photo of children sitting at tables at one of the schools in Svay Rieng Province, Laos, where school kits prepared by North American Mennonites and Brethren in Christ will go.
Kauffman, Fred
This is a photo of Lao children at their desks with their new school supplies, collected and sent to them by children in North America through a 1984 Mennonite Central Committee school kit project.
Peachey, Titus
This is a photo of Khammee and Ta Vu, Luang Prabang Orphanage children interviewed by Linda Gehman Peachey, MCC worker in Laos, standing by stacks of drying firewood gathered by the children for use in boiling their rice and vegetables.
Peachey, Linda Gehman
This is a photo of John Hess-Yoder, MCCer in Vientiane, Laos, briefing Joan Baez on MCC aid to returned Lao refugees.
Swartzendruber, Jan
Laotian farmers working in rice fields
This is a photo of Lao farmers working in their rice fields. 2 copies
Nomura, Takeji
This is a photo of a woman and children, Laotian refugees in Thailand, making rice paste for rice cakes.
Hess-Yoder, John
This is a photo of two Laotian women sitting on the floor while preparing food.
Yoder, John
Laotians digging a 9-mile canal
This is a photo of Laotians digging a nine-mile irrigation canal. An MCC food shipment will be used in payment for their work.
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Laotians In a refugee camp in Thailand
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.
Hess-Yoder, John
Man leading water buffalo in Laos
This is a photo of a man leading a water buffalo to a truck, in Vientiane Province, for transport to village farmers in Xieng Khouang Province in northern Laos. It and 49 others were part of a joint project of MCC and Redd-Barna Thailand. These water buffalo enable village farmers to produce rice more efficiently and rebuild their lives which were disrupted by the Indochina War.
Peachey, Titus
Man squatting in a field beside a small "bombie"
This is a photo of a man squatting in a field beside a small "bombie". These "bombies" lie hidden in the soil and cause injury and death years after war is over. The continuing effects of war is a theme of "Making War in Peace", a slide set on life after war by Titus Peachey and Linda Peachey, former MCC workers in Laos.
Foehringer-Merchant
Map of Kampuchea, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam
King, Jim