Victor and Viola Dorsch Letter
- US MCUSAA HM1/261SC
- Collection
- 1961
"Update" letter from a Mennonite missionary couple regarding their work in Somilia.
Dorsch, Victor, 1927-
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Victor and Viola Dorsch Letter
"Update" letter from a Mennonite missionary couple regarding their work in Somilia.
Dorsch, Victor, 1927-
This photo is of women refugees in Somalian camps. They are meeting together to discuss common problems and attend classes on nutrition, sewing, simple math and literacy.
Heistand, Gerald
This is a photo of women refugees in Somalian camps meeting together to discuss common problems and attend classes on nutrition, sewing, simple math and literacy. They are sitting on the floor and there are four sewing machines against one wall.
Heistand, Gerald
This is a photo of MCC Somalia Country Representative Henry Rempel (second from right) and Somali officials before a U. S. goverenment-chartered plane that airlifted 45 tons of canned beef to Somalia. Unloading of cartons continues in the background.
MCC
This is a photo of women refugees in Somalia returning to camp with water. They are some of the Horn of Africa's uprooted people.
Heistand, Gerald
This is a photo of refugees in a Somali camp receiving MCC corn. There are several round dwellings made of straw or cloth around the people.
Rands, Janine
This is a photo of dock workers in Mogadishu unloading some of the 20,00 bags of corn donated by Great Lakes area farmers.
Rempel, Henry
This is a photo of Somali farmers and MCCer Barry Rands, front right, checking progress on a corn crop in an MCC rural development project. Such crops were totally destroyed in April flooding.
Heistand, Gerald
This is a photo of refugee women at a camp in Somalia getting corn from an MCC shipment.
Heistand, Gerald
This is a photo of MCCer Peggy Short teaching a women's class in a Somalian refugee camp.The women are sitting on the floor and Short and a man are sitting on chairs by an easel with a poster. There are sewing machines along one wall.
Heistand, Gerald
This is a photo of Somali refugee children sitting outside the grass hut of their settlement. The refugees construct these dwellings in the same manner they did in their former nomadic lifestyles.
Crossman, Peter
Selma Unruh and Willard Unruh (Somalia)
This is a photo of Selma Unruh and Willard Unruh.
King, Jim
This is a photo of MCCer Peg Short demonstrating preparation of sweet potatoes in a Somalian refugee camp while women help. One of the women has a small child on her back.
Weaver-Grill, Frances
Negative also (12x9). Used in CM 10-30-3. Merlin was assassinated in Somalia, Africa. In this photo are Merlin with his wife, his parents & their 3 children David (5), Pauline (8) & Bruce (10). See CM 10-29-1 for details.
Toronto Star Syndicate
MCC Slide Presentation-Horn of Africa
This slide show consists of 28 color and black and while slides showing the people, landscape and condition of people in the countries of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. This is the horn of Africa where people are suffering from weather extremes and from a long standing war between countries. These two issues cause a lot of refugees. MCC is trying to provide food aid to the people who need it and is working with the people in development through farming practices and new economic initiative such as selling crafts. Included is print material and an audio cassette (cassette #2539).