photos of two women working in a field of morning glory picking
Young women stand at a gathering in the village of Nabobila, Bangladesh. In this and other rural areas of Bangladesh, MCC supports agricultural projects, livestock and vaccination camps and trainings on raising cattle and goats. In a region where many people live on the verge of hunger, new ways of raising livestock are helping families put more food on the table.
A two day peace seminar and celebration brings different tribes together from Kenya. Participants learned about one another's peace traditions and built friendships. MCC was a supporter of the event. On the last evening participants had a celebration of food and dancing. Here the Masai slaughter a sheep at sundown for the meal.
In Rwanda, Mennonite Central Committee supports a group called Women in Dialogue, which builds peace and reconciliation amoung Hutu and Tutsi women coming from both sides of the 1994 genocide. Gloriose is part of this group, which creates new friendships and trust between the two tribes that was not there before.
Viviana Cucul Tun, 16, practicies weaving a guipil, a part of the K'ekchi Mennonite Education Center in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. The center provides education for youth including classes in carpentry, tailoring, organic agriculture and health care.
Students participate in an environmental education class in Desarmes, Haiti. MCC supports environmental education classes at 12 schools in and around Desarmes. Pictured left to right are: Marie Poul Nucius, Elort Fodelet, Asline Jerome, and Reveil Fequiere.
photos of boaters in a river that sometimes floods into the comm
Mariana and her family were displaced from their home in rural Colombia due to violence and now live on the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia's capital. After decades of armed conflict, Colombia has the second highest number of internally displaced people in the world, surpassed only by Sudan. Mencoldes, an MCC partner, provides bedding, food, counseling, medical services and other assitance to displaced people.
Abdullah, 6, holds a school kit he received from an MCC material aid distribution in Makhmur, northern Iraq. He and his family were displaced from Baghdad and are now living in Makhmur. MCC works with partner organization REACH to facilitate material aid distributions of blankets, relief kits and school kits to different areas of Iraq.
Pictured left to right are Doña Dora Jimenez, Regina Peralta, Seberina Sejas, and Doña Lucia Jimenez. They chat at the home of Lucia in the community of Maguial de la Higuera, Bolivia. They were participants in a community water project supported by MCC.
Volunteers participate in an exercise class at The Center for Peacebuilding in Sanski Most. They get together to fellowship and relax on a regular basis. MCC supports the center in its work, which also has summer peace camps and holds peace building workshops in schools. Jasmina Ramic is in white and Edina Suvalic is in black. Vahidin Omanovic, director and creator of the center, is in blue.
Deborah Awut is a nurse for a Primary Health Care Unit (PHCU) in the community of Adirdir, close to the town of Rumbek, Sudan. MCC parnters with Church Ecumenical Action in Sudan (CEAS) to provide primary health care units and build schools in communities in the Rumbek area.
A boy shepherds his sheep at sunset in the rural community of Besud, Afghanistan.
Through MCC-supported renewable energy projects, entire communities in Nicaragua are entering an age of electricity without relying on fossil fuels. MCC-supported renewable energy projects work to provide a brighter future for the areas children, including 6-year-old Jeninsa Dayana of Corozo.
Scenery in Sarajevo, Bosnia



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