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This is a photo of a Salvadoran grandmother and child, victims of the civil war, making tortillas in camp for displaced persons near Guazapa, El Salvador.

This is a photo of women refugees in Somalian camps meeting together to discuss common problems and attend classes on nutrition, sewing, simple math and literacy. They are sitting on the floor and there are four sewing machines against one wall.

This is a photo of Barbara Brubaker (on the right wearing dark glasses and a white cap) watching the distribution of food in a Somalian refugee camp.

This is a photo of 'Me Makibane Kibane, a Tabola village woman, sitting outside on the ground and shelling beans from the 1983 harvest.

This is a photo of a Salvadoran refugee mother standing by a counter stacked with canned food.She is preparing food for malnourished children in a feeding centre near San Salvador. An inter-church food aid program, which has distributed MCC beef and other donated food, is helping 60,000 refugees.

This is a photo of a Guatemalan Kekchi Indian mother helping to weigh an infant in a hanging scale while the brother and sister watch. There are some women and children in the background watching as well.

This is a photo of two Bangladesh women sitting on the floor and carefully crafting gift cards using small strips of wheatstraw at the Mirpur Wheatstraw Centre. This is one of MCC's job creation projects to provide jobs and income for poor women of Bangladesh.

This is a photo of women in Mirpur making straw art pictures. MCC has helped impoverished Bangladeshi women become self-sufficient through its job creation programs.

This is a photo of an Egyptian mother and child at a women's training centre of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

This is a photo of women sitting on the floor at a small bench and preparing wheat straw cards in their Mirpur, Bangladesh, home. The Mirpur wheat straw project provides primary income for 400 families in this slum on the northern edge of Dhaka, Bandladesh's capital city.

This is a photo of a woman squatting on the ground behind a large bowl, grating a spice into the bowl. Behind her are cabinet-type solar dryers used to dry ginger, turmeric, coriander and red chili peppers. These spices, an essential part of Bengali cooking, are sold in Bangladesh and to alternative trading organizations in Europe.

This is a photo of Zambian women and some children sitting outside on the ground by a building mad of bricks and thatch roof. They are receiving family planning services and skills training as part of Nelda Thelin's work with Sikalonga Development Program.

This is a photo of Razia holding a sleeping child. She has been able to operate a grocery shop with retained earnings from Mennonite Central Committee's Action Bag program in Saidpur, Bangladesh.

This is a photo of church women of Maputo, Mozambique, sitting on the ground under a tree and hand-sewing clothing for displaced people in their country.

This is a photo of women from 25 countries gathered in informal small groups to talk about how women are part of Mennonite churches in their countries.