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This is a photo of Nepali women sitting on the floor with their backs against a brick wall while knitting at their Wednesday afternoon class where they receive instruction, assistance and encouragement. About 30 women are members of the Himalayan Handknit project that MCC worker Ruth McCaslin leads. The women knit sweaters to earn money.

This is a photo of a West Bank woman carrying home olive seedlings, in a basket on her head, which she received through an MCC program. She is on a busy city street.

This is a photo of a mother and children standing near the door of their recently constructed brick house in 18 de Marzo, Bolivia.

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 Nasiima, standing in a crowd of children, with the goat she was able to purchase with retained earnings from the Mennonite Central Committeee's Action Bag program in Saidpur, Bangladesh.

This is a photo of a woman wearing a sari, sitting outside a brick building. Beside her is a large metal pail.

This is a photo of (left to right): unidentified student, teacher Mrs. Nellie Chingobe, teacher MCCer Amy Williams of Claremont, Calif., and another unidentified student doing needlework. The two women teach at the Livingston YWCA Training Project for young women in Livingston, Zambia.

This is a photo of a woman squatting beside bundles of material used in producing brightly coloured baskets, mats and Panama hats sold in Poland, Hungary, the Soviet Union, Japan, Italy and Canada. She is a member of the Cuu Long Cooperative in Vietnam. Money from SELFHELP Crafts in Canada enabled the cooperative to buy seven industrial sewing machines.

This is a photo of women and children behind bars at the Suan Phlu Detention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand, where some 600 people are being held for Thai immigration violations.

This is a photo of two Hmong women sitting on short stools on the edge of a hard-packed alley, doing embroidery, in the Ban Nam Yao refugee camp in northeast Thailand. Traditional Hmong designs such as the snail (protection), heart (good health) and elephant's foot (wealth) are crafted into saleable items such as potholders and aprons for sale in North America.

This is a photo of Sudanese women praying during commemoration of Women's World Day of Prayer in early March in the Cathedral in Juba, Sudan.

This is a photo of MCC worker Becky Dudley having a meeting in an office, sitting at a table, with two women animators in Mombin Crochu.

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.

This is a photo of five Salvadoran refugee women outside a thatched dwelling in the Valley of Peace settlement. One hundred Salvadoran farming families live in this UNHCR refugee resettlement village in Belize.

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.