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This is a photo of a poster, designed by Mennonite Central Committee, Which has received attention beyond Mennonite circles. It shows two people hugging with the words "A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR PEACE LET THE CHRISTIANS OF THE WORLD AGREE THAT THEY WILL NOT KILL EACH OTHER". (Poster design by Jim King.)

This is a photo of a young man weaving an item for SELFHELP Crafts. Interest-free loans from this producer group finance pig raising, housing, small business and education for people who earn less than $2 a day.

This is a photo of a doctor examining a patient who attended a clinic sponsored by MCC and more than 10 Filipino groups. Doctors at the clinic , which MCC worker Jim Kurtz helped organize, treated eye, ear, nose and throat patients.

This is a photo of auctioneer Leon Kurtz, left on the platform, waiting for bids at the Pennsylvania Holstein Heifer Sale held March 13 at the Guernsey Barn in Lancaster, Pa. With him on the sale platform is Dale Hoover, who read the pedigrees of the heifer. There are two men on standing on the floor. On e of the men is holding on to the heifer up for bids.

This is a photo of Wayne Peters of Steinbach, Manitoba, admiring a solid camphor wood mountain goat at the SELFHELP Crafts warehouse in Ephrata, Pa. The carving was one of five donated by a SELFHELP Crafts producer group in Taiwan to raise money for Mennonite Central Committee.

This is a photo of Ezra Sigwela, Zuki Sigwela and their daughter, Nobulungisa Sigwela.

This is a photo of (left to right): Keith Gingerich of the MCC Washington Office and Bishop Clement Janda, executive director of the Sudan Council of Churches.

This is a photo of Southern Sudan Council of Churches worker Massy Bandare, sitting at a table with other women, speaking into a microphone. She is addressing a women's conference in Juba held in early February.

This is a photo of people posing behind a large pile of bones on display in a Ugandan village in the Luweero Triangle. These bones were found on one family compound.

This is a photo of a player from the winning women's team from Pleasant View Mennonite Church of Millersville, Ohio, up at bat in the Indiana State Mennonite Slow Pitch Softball Tournament. The catcher is also in the photo . There are spectators behind the chain link fence. Proceeds from the locally-organized benefit Mennonite Central Committee.

This is a photo of (left to right): Yvette Miller of Los Angeles, Calif, standing and talking to an unidentified woman who is sitting at a desk. Miller served at Calvary Mennonite Church, Inglewood, Calif., through the MCC U. S. Urban Ministries Office Summer Service Program.

This is a photo of Mennonite Central Committee U. S. worker Steve Johnson at his desk at the Lancaster, Pa. Mediation Centre.

This is a photo of (left to right): Frieda Wiebe with three unidentified staff members at the Can Tho University library.

This is a photo of a woman squatting beside bundles of material used in producing brightly coloured baskets, mats and Panama hats sold in Poland, Hungary, the Soviet Union, Japan, Italy and Canada. She is a member of the Cuu Long Cooperative in Vietnam. Money from SELFHELP Crafts in Canada enabled the cooperative to buy seven industrial sewing machines.