Mennonite Archival Information Database

Brazil

CA MHC 280-105.0-018
Item
1982

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of MCC Brazil agriculturist Kevin King of Cochranville, Pa., working in a garden with a young helper.

Miller, Jim

Brazil

CA MHC 280-105.0-019
Item
1982

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of (left to right): Kevin Neuhouser and Marian Neuhouser standing in the doorway of their house watching two young residents of the "favela" play in the street. Their work surrounds them in the close living quarters they share with others in the shantytown.

Hostetler, D. Michael

Brazil

CA MHC 280-126.0-009
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of MCCer Kevin King and foreman Neginho on top of dam wall, discussing the day's work.

Brubaker, David

Brazil

CA MHC 280-126.0-010
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of workers in Porto Amazones taking a break from repairing a widow's house. Henrique Heinrichs, a farmer from Witmarsum Colony, is in the centre. Herman Neufeld, AMAS administrative director, is on the far right. The others are local Brazilians helping in the reconstruction effort.

Miller, Jim

Woman getting water (Brazil)

CA MHC 280-164.0-005
Item
1985

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a woman filling a pot with water from a pipe on the outside of her home. There is laundry on a line attached to her house. Before her village put in the waterline, she had to haul water from a mountain spring. In her words this is a "beauty".

Hettler, Rob

Brazil

CA MHC 280-182.0-018
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a Brazilian peasant mother walking home, barefoot on a dirt road, after a hard day of work in a rich landowner's sugar cane fields. Many farmers do not own enough land to grow their own food and so must hire out at low wages to feed their families.

Good, Byron

Boy reading New Testament (Brazil)

CA MHC 280-182.0-019
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a young boy reading from the New Testament during Christian Base Community meeting in Feijao, Brazil. Standing behind him are several adult males. These groups are the "living cells of the church" in Latin America.

Brubaker, Dave