This is a photo of people standing outside The Source, a new retail shop for handicrafts, that opened June 5 in Dhaka. The shop will sell products made by participants in the MCC Bangladesh job creation program. (Left to right): Dave Anderson of Portland, Ore. (short -sleeved shirt) is the administrator of this program and Mark Nord of Church's Ferry, N. D. (in the dark sweater) is MCC Bangladesh Country Representative.
This is a photo of Abzillar Rahman, rural savings co-op member, in the Dharmapur, Bangladesh, shop that his co-op has set up with savings they accumulated through MCC's Rural Savings Program.
This is a photo of Zahirun Nesa squatting by wooden frames that hold bars of soap. These bars are drying in the sun at Shapla Soap Factory, Saidpur, Bangladesh. Nesa is one of the 15 people employed in this Mennonite Central Committee job creation project.
This is a photo of a crowd of people gathered for the inauguration of a food-for-work road building project in Bangladesh. The Bengalis building the road will receive as payment wheat donated to Mennonite Central Committee by Canadian farmers and shipped to Bangladesh by the Canadian Food Grains Bank.
This is a photo of (left to right): Russ Toevs, Derek D'Silva, an extension assistant to Khokon, Khabirul Islam Khokon, Paul Shires and Lee Brockmueller standing in a soybean field in Kushtia District of western Bangladesh.
This is a photo of curious children attracted to the new complex that brought relief agencies and the people of Saidpur in a joint effort to better the community's living conditions.
This is a photo of women in Mirpur making straw art pictures. MCC has helped impoverished Bangladeshi women become self-sufficient through its job creation programs.
This is a photo of MCC Bangladesh agricultural coordinator Siraj Uddowla explaining soybean cultivation to a farmer, while MCCer Duane Auch of Lesterville, S. D., looks on.
This is a photo of a Bangladeshi woman, employed in Surjosnato Food Products program initiated by Mennonite Central Committee, husking a coconut which she will grate and dry in a solar dryer she constructed using locally available materials.
This is a photo of Mr. Ainul Hoda, Production Supervisor for the Saidpur Action Bag Program, explaining the technique of quality control for jute shopping bags.
