This photo is of workers moving earth by carrying it in baskets on their heads. It is an example of an MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) food-for-work project in India. MCC food-for-work projects in India often involve moving earth to construct roads, water reservoirs, wells, or to reclaim land.
This photo is of Steve Caldwell, an MCCer who served in Indonesia. He is holding the perpetual siphon that is part of the water purification system he developed for residents of Rasau Jaya, a transmigration site in West Kalimantan.
This photo is of a session of the Intercollegiate Peace Conference which was held in the lodge of the Laurelville Mennonite Church, Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Smith Griswold, former Pollution Control Officer for the Los Angeles County, was the keynote speaker.
This photo is of a group of students who attended the 1970 Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship held at the Laurelville Mennonite Church Center in Pennsylvania. Ninety-five students from most of the U.S. Mennonite colleges attended the event.
This photo is of a few of the ninety-five students from most of the U.S. Mennonite colleges who attended the 1970 Intercollegiate Peace Fellowhship held at the Laurelville Mennonite Church Center in Pennsylvania.
This photo is of a local worker in Koyom, Chad transporting earth in a wheelbarrow to make a canal for the irrigation system MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) is building. This irrigation system will make rice farming possible during dry seasons.
This photo is of local Italian young people singing at the dedication service for the Volturara community center in Italy. This center contains a kindergarten, fellowship hall and city offices. At far right is MCC volunteer Mike Hillerbrand.
This photo is of J. H. Unruh, MCC Canada representative, and Dwight Wiebe, talking with William T. Snyder, MCC executive secretary at the annual meeting of MCC, Chicago, January 24 -25, 1969.
This photo is of Janet Landis and Lloyd Fisher in an office. Mr. Fisher is sitting behind a desk looking at some papers and Miss Landis is standing beside the desk. The description on the back says, "Miss Janet Landis, Secretary, and Lloyd J. Fisher, Executive Director of Akron, PA, staff persons for MEDA. Miss Landis and Mr. Fisher keep in touch with twenty MEDA project administrators in twenty countries around the world and prepare and send the reports to the MEDA members in Canada and USA."
This photo is of a Japanese woman playing a zither. The woman is seated on a low stool and the zither is placed on a slightly raised platform in front of her. The photo is taken outdoors in front of a brick wall. The description on the back says, "A member of the fourth Project Bridgebuilding group from Japan demonstrates her skill on the koto, a long Japanese zither with silk strings. The group toured the United States from July 2 - Aug. 26, 1968."
This photo is of Jim Enz Administrative Assistant in the Material Aid Department at the Akron Headquarters, checking supplies of the measles vaccine shipment to Paraguay. Jim Enz is from Newton, Kansas.
This photo is of Jim Enz of the First Mennonite Church in Newton, Kansas preparing vitamin pills for shipment to the famine area in Kenya. This is taking place at the MCC Ephrata Material Aid Center in Pennsylvania.