- CA MHC 280-5.0-012
- Item
- 1977
This is a photo of Esther Olfert (right) holding a cooking nutrition class. She is attempting to give these Brazilian women a high regard for themselves as homemakers.
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This is a photo of Esther Olfert (right) holding a cooking nutrition class. She is attempting to give these Brazilian women a high regard for themselves as homemakers.
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Boy reading New Testament (Brazil)
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
This is a photo of MCCer Kevin King and foreman Neginho on top of dam wall, discussing the day's work.
Brubaker, David
This is a photo of MCCer Margaret Wattman-Turner of Spokane, Wash. She works with local women in health and nutrition education in Brazil.
Beach, Mark
This is a photo of MCC Brazil agriculturist Kevin King of Cochranville, Pa., working in a garden with a young helper.
Miller, Jim
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
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
This is a photo of MCC Brazil worker Greta Lodder taking Elveraldo Muniz de Araujo to school in a wheelchair. Walking with them is Ivan.
Beach, Mark
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
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
This is a photo of a Brazilian mother and her two children. The Brazilian government has begun a major campaign promoting breast-feeding.
Beach, Mark
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
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
Brazilian farmer using a horse and plough
This is a photo of a Brazilian farmer using a horse to pull his plough. Gordon Short (right) is encouraging farmers to use animal traction instead of the traditional hoe cultivation.
Sauder, Richard
Brazilian girl learning better cultivation methods
This is a photo of a Brazilian girl learning better cultivation methods in an MCC-taught class. The new MCC filmstrip emphasizes that if the status of women in Third Word countries is to improve, young girls must be taught such curricula as agriculture, nutrition,health and industrial technology.
Grill, Frances Weaver