- CA MHC 280-83.0-010
- Item
- 1981
This is a photo of John Nighswander of Kitchener, ON, repairing the support for a house near Whitesburg, KY.
King, Jim
This is a photo of John Nighswander of Kitchener, ON, repairing the support for a house near Whitesburg, KY.
King, Jim
This is a photo of Gerald Brown (right) working with a local carpenter trainee near Harlan, KY, before the federal grant for training was cut.
King, Jim
This is a photo of young Bangladeshi volunteers helping to put up houses in an area devastated by floods. MCC provided money for materials.
MCC
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
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
Constructing a church in Guatemala
This is a photo of K'eckchi' Mennonite men laying blocks during the construction of a church in Las Casas, Guatemala.
Olfert, Esther
Constructing a warehouse in Ethiopia
Men outside the almost completed warehouse in Wukro; branches above windows and doors provide scaffolding for workers.
Hostetler, John
Digging trenches for the foundation of a boys' school
This is a photo of campers digging trenches for the foundation of the boys' school at Balarampur.
Lobe, A. C.
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
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.
Frey, Neal
This is a photo of a worker laying cement blocks at the construction project in Juan Baron, Dominican Republic.
Stauffer, LaMar
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
This is a photo of villagers in West Bengal completing a two-year culvert project for the Lodha people.
MCC
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