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Dominica

This is a photo of a pre-school under construction, an MCC-assisted project in Dominica which erected the structure and later completed its roof. Workers are producing blocks to fill in the walls with an MCC-purchased block machine.

Penner, Jim, 1924-2012

Guatemala

This is a photo of men working on a building project. Families in MCC-built houses in Guatemala see their monthly payments go to local projects like this "pila" where persons do the family laundry by dipping water from large concrete tanks into one of the separate sinks surrounding the tank.

Kauffman, Fred

Willard Ebersole working on a Kentucky home: MCC U. S. SWAP

This is a photo of MCC U. S. worker Willard Ebersole (left) and a friend working on a Kentucky home. This is a part of the housing repair and cleanup tasks to be done by youth teams in the Sharing With Appalachian People (SWAP) program of MCC U. S. This program offers week-long and weekend educational and service experiences in Harlan County, Ky.

Beach, Mark

Building a latrine in Bangladesh

This is a photo of a mason in Bangladesh building a low-cost latrine for a family in Saidpur. In the background a simple dwellings made of matting with thatch roofs. In 1983 MCC built and converted more than 400 latrines as part of its Saidpur sanitation program.

Schroeder, Don

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