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Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection Brazil With digital objects
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Brazil

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

Brazil

This is a photo of former MCCer Dave Graber and a Brazilian co-worker building a cistern that will "harvest" rainfall for use during dry months.

Grill, Frances Weaver

Brazil

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

Brazil

This is a photo of Robert Gerber of the Evangelical Mennonite Association (AEM) in Brazil. He is addressing those present to dedicate 20 houses for flood victims in Araguacema. One of the house is visible in the background.

Brown, Doug

Brazil

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

This is a photo of a cistern in Northeast Brazil where they are suffering from a little-publicized three-year drought. MCC volunteers helped to construct the cistern.

Grill, Frances Weaver

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