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Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection India With digital objects
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A classroom at Khelaghar, India

This is a photo of children and their teacher in a classroom at Khelaghar. The classroom is a round structure with a low wall, open sides and a thatch roof supported on bamboo poles. The teacher is sitting on a chair and the children are on the low wall.

Burnett, Tina Mast

Craftsmen of Northern India

This is a photo of craftsmen sitting on the floor of their workshop, in the Northern India village of Saharanpur, producing shesham wood articles which MCC's SELFHELP Crafts program markets. The program sold a million and a half dollars worth of items in 1980.

Leatherman, Paul

India

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

India

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

India

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

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