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Brazil

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.

Miller, Jim

Building a brick wall

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.

Yusavitz, Carl

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

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

India

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.

Doerksen, Al

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