This is a photo of (left to right): Rick Binder, Coptic Orthodox Bishop Athanasios, Vern Ratzlaff, Bev Binder and Amal Shafik posing in front of a brick wall during a February 12 to 14 retreat of Mennonite Central Committee workers and members of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Ratzlaff is wearing a monk's cowl that was placed on his head by Bishop Athanasios.
This is a photo of MCC worker, Elmer Thiessen (centre, with hat), and the four leaders of the Koyom, Chad irrigation project: Brihim, Boulous, Joshue and Phillippe. They stand or sit in one of the system's canals.
This is a photo of (left to right): chairman Newton Gingrich, Urbane Peachey and executive secretary William Snyder at the MCC Annual Meeting in Reedley, CA.
This photo shows women from the Mennonite Church in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, putting away summer clothes and replacing the stock with donated clothes for winter, in the Community Closet on 101st Street.
This is a photo of MCCer Victor Neumann of Abbotsford, BC, with refugee workers processing mail at Songkhla camp, Thailand. Letters from relatives already settled abroad tell of televisions and other luxuries, but also of problems adjusting to a new and complex society.
This is a photo of board members at 1984 MCC annual meeting. (Left to right): Hugo Jantz, Leo Driedger, Henry P. Yoder, Bruce Janzen and Florence Driedger.
This is a photo of crude dwellings made of corrugated metal. The people in the photo are victims of the April 20 fire in Geneva Camp, a Bihari refugee camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
This is a photo of Nusrat Aziz sitting at a table, working on a wheatstraw picture. Aziz was one of the first six women to work at the Mirpur Wheatstraw centre that was started by MCC in 1975. Her ability to do "precise work has been the challenging model for others and her laughter and approachability have endeared her to her co-workers," says David Klassen of St Catherines, ON, artist and designer at the centre.