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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.

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.

This is a photo of workers building a brick wall on the site of a Sudan Council of Churches primary health care clinic for displaced mothers and children who have fled drought, famine or civil unrest near their homes. Two MCCers are helping the Council of Churches start this program in Khartoum that will serve displaced people in 14 areas.

This is a photo of (left to right): MCCers Harry Froese and Larry LaRash replacing the corrugated roof on a classroom at Dalo School in Nigeria.

This is a photo of K'eckchi' Mennonite men laying blocks during the construction of a church in Las Casas, Guatemala.

Men outside the almost completed warehouse in Wukro; branches above windows and doors provide scaffolding for workers.

This is a photo of Chilean workers putting up walls on a house being rebuilt as part of MCC's housing construction program in Santa Clara. Hundreds of residents in this slum area near Santiago were left without housing after the May earthquake hit Chile.

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.

This is a photo of villagers in West Bengal completing a two-year culvert project for the Lodha people.

This is a photo of two of the houses in the reconstructed village of Bethlehem in Andra Pradesh, India. Villagers, MCC and Village Reconstruction Organization worked together on this project.

This is a photo of workers in Porto Amazones taking a break from repairing a widow's house. Henrique Heinrichs, a farmer from Witmarsum Colony, is in the centre. Herman Neufeld, AMAS administrative director, is on the far right. The others are local Brazilians helping in the reconstruction effort.

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.

This is a photo of men constructing a meetinghouse for the Evangelical Mennonite Conference congregation which grew out of reconstruction efforts in Juan Baron, Dominican Republic.

This is a photo of young Bangladeshi volunteers helping to put up houses in an area devastated by floods. MCC provided money for materials.

This is a photo of John Nighswander of Kitchener, ON, repairing the support for a house near Whitesburg, KY.