- CA MHC 280-74.0-002
- Item
- 1980
This is a photo of people looking at Self-Help items at the Pennsylvania Relief Sale.
Toews, Reginald, 1941-
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This is a photo of people looking at Self-Help items at the Pennsylvania Relief Sale.
Toews, Reginald, 1941-
Two Volunteers at the cash register
This is a photo of two volunteers, at the cash register, and a costumer in a SELFHELP Crafts shop. Volunteers from many different church denominations find fulfilling work and new friendships here.
Dirks, Doug
This is a photo of British Columbia SELFHELP co-director Laura Friesen learning about batik making from two skilled craftswomen in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
King, Jim
Learning good customer service skills
This is a photo of (left to right): Charles Koch of Elmira, N. Y. and Arlene Preheim of Freeman, S. D., learning good customer service skills during a role-playing exercise at the SELFHELP Crafts during the April_May workshops for volunteers at MCC's 110 thrift and gift shops.
King, Jim
Unpacking a wood shipment from Haiti
This is a photo of SELFHELP Crafts founder Edna Ruth Byler unpacking a wood shipment from Haiti.
Lauver, Melvin
This is a photo of MCC U. S. tea room volunteer Goldie Miller preparing food in a kitchen. She says "I used to be a meat and potatoes person with lots of noodles and gravy, but now I'm making peanut soup, curried vegetables, mango mousse and some things so spicy they scare me".
King, Jim
This is a photo of Menno Sell and Clara Sell posing with monkey-shaped coconut banks made in the Philippines. They sell more of these banks than any other group or shop. IN the past six years this retired couple has single-handedly sold over $100,000 in SELFHELP Crafts merchandise at a weekly farmers' market stand.
Landis,Marv
Wayne Peters admiring a mountain goat carving
This is a photo of Wayne Peters of Steinbach, Manitoba, admiring a solid camphor wood mountain goat at the SELFHELP Crafts warehouse in Ephrata, Pa. The carving was one of five donated by a SELFHELP Crafts producer group in Taiwan to raise money for Mennonite Central Committee.
Daley, Doris
This is a photo of Samuel Rolon admiring embroidery done by his mother, one of the first women involved in Edna Ruth Byler's needlework project that later became SELFHELP Crafts.
Daley, Doris
Fairfield Gift Festival founders
This is a photo of Fairfield Gift Festival founders at the 25th Anniversary Sale. Front row(left to right): Lois Wilson and Peg Smith. Back row (left to right): Joyce Shutt, Hazel Dunmire and Ruth Musselman.
Forsman, Donna
Young man weaving an item for SELFHELP Crafts
This is a photo of a young man weaving an item for SELFHELP Crafts. Interest-free loans from this producer group finance pig raising, housing, small business and education for people who earn less than $2 a day.
King, Jim
This is a photo of Marj Grieser of Archbold, Ohio, sorting through returned items during a week-long working holiday at the SELFHELP Crafts warehouse in Ephrata, Pa.
Daley, Doris
This is a photo of (left to right): Marge Pratt and her daughter Darlene Pratt of Elmira, N. Y., arranging a lacquer ware display at the World Treasures shop. They were among the volunteers who transformed empty floor space into a SELFHELP Crafts shop at Arnot Mall in Elmira.
Daley, Doris
Botswana baskets on display for sale at the Ephrata, Pa., SELFHELP Crafts store.
Reinheimer, Betty
Henry Gerbrandt, volunteer with Self-Help Crafts
This is a photo of Henry Gerbrandt of Winnipeg, MB, a voluntary service worker at SELFHELP Crafts warehouse in Ephtrata, Pa., weighing one of the thousands of boxes sent to retail shops in the United States during the pre-Christmas season.
Beach, Mark