Mennonite Archival Information Database

CA MHC 280-11.0-003
Item
1977

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of the church where people sheltered when their homes were blown away. All cattle drowned by the tidal flooding and all crops were destroyed.

Wieler, John

Rekha Roy (India)

CA MHC 280-111.0-001
Item
1982

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Rekha Roy, founder of the Speech and Hearing Institute in Calcutta, India. She is holding a microphone.

MCC

India

CA MHC 280-111.0-003
Item
1982

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of three men cleaning debris from a collapsed house.

Doerksen, Al

India

CA MHC 280-111.0-004
Item
1982

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a family standing outside one of the 99 houses, at a village in Orissa State, India, built with MCC help following a disastrous flood in September, 1980.

MCC

Chinese student from MCC sponsorship program in India

CA MHC 280-126.0-006
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Yee Sui Wah, a 17-year-old Chinese boy, whom MCC sponsors in India, is standing in front of his home with other members of his family. Ruth Detweiler, coordinator of the MCC sponsorship program, is standing in the back on the right.

Krehbiel, Mary

Canadian wheat arrives in India

CA MHC 280-132.0-001
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of bags of wheat being unloaded with a large net from the hold of a ship. The wheat was brought to Calcutta from Canada.

Doerksen, Al

India

CA MHC 280-132.0-003
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of an Indian woman carrying a bowl of rocks on her head. She is working with others in her community to build a dam that will enable them to store irrigation water. She is receiving MCC wheat as payment for her labour.

Doerksen, Al

India

CA MHC 280-132.0-004
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of men digging trenches. Some of the men are carrying the earth away in wicker baskets on their heads. This is a food-for work project.

Sawatzky, Benjamin J., 1922-2003

Shabbi Kohli of India

CA MHC 280-132.0-005
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Shabbi Kohli, one of the founders of Sarba Shanti Ayog.

MCC

India

CA MHC 280-132.0-007
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of MCCer Ben Sawatzky moving two baskets of earth at the groundbreaking ceremony, marking the beginning of the Kalyanpur dam project in Madhya Pradesh. There are smiling people cheering him on as he carries the baskets with the aid of a yoke.

MCC

India

CA MHC 280-132.0-009
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of a leprosy victim spinning thread that will be woven into blankets.MCC purchases these blankets and then distributes them to other institutions in India through its Material Resources Assistance Program.

Doerksen, Al

Men digging trenches in India

CA MHC 280-151.0-001
Item
1984

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of some men digging trenches and others carrying the earth away in baskets on their heads. This is a food-for-work project.

Sawatzky, Benjamin J., 1922-2003

Peter Elias in India

CA MHC 280-151.0-002
Item
1984

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Peter Elias, Mennonite Brethren, in a discussion with several other men at Mennonite Christian Service Fellowship of India (MCSFI) consultation in Calcutta, March 84. There is another group in the background.

Pankratz, James N., 1946-

Youth amid piles of donated clothing (India)

CA MHC 280-187.0-001
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of several youth amid piles of clothing donated by Calcutta churches and institutions. They are preparing the clothing for distribution to flood victims in West Bengal, India.

Biswas, Daniel

Children at Demaily School (India)

CA MHC 280-187.0-002
Item
1986

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of children sitting on the ground at Demaily School. The school was established by Brethren in Christ Development Society, an organization supported by Brethren in Christ and by MCC.

Peters, Peter H., 1934-

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