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Rebuilding lives in India's Andaman IslandsThree years after a devastating tsunami destroyed homes and lives throughout India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands 
A place to play in the West BankWater pollution plagues Palestinian villages in the West Bank. MCC is helping to treat sewage to clean up places where children play. 
MCC Summer Service - 2007Through MCC Summer Service, some 70 young adults from diverse Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches are serving communities throughout the United States. 
Beyond Vietnam's rice fieldsAmid Vietnam's economic boom, rice farmers in impoverished areas of northern Vietnam are finding new opportunities to improve their lives. 
Celebrating God's LovePhotographs from around the world portray MCC's theme for 2007, Celebrating God's love. 
Hope for a greener HaitiForests have all but disappeared from Haiti’s hills and mountainsides. In their place are slopes of grass and bare dirt. 
Celebrating children around the worldWe invite you to celebrate the lives of children near and far and to reflect on how they are a gift and expression of God. 
Colombia: Join a call for peace and justiceIn Colombia, a long-running armed conflict has forced some 3.5 million people to flee their homes. Colombian Mennonites invite you to learn more, pray, reflect and act. 
Burundi's land and peopleBurundi, located in east-central Africa, is one of the poorest countries on the continent. It is also Africa's second most densely populated nation, and it struggles with the effects of environmental degradation. Brandon Thiessen, an MCC reforestation worker, shares photos of Burundi's land and people. 
Churches in Ukraine respond to new freedoms, challengesChurch-run loan funds, orphanages, medical services and HIV/AIDS awareness programs are some of the new programs that have been started following the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc and ratification of Ukraine's independence in 1991. 
Women and AIDS around the worldThe United Nations recently reported that AIDS remains on the increase worldwide. The number of people living with AIDS is nearly 39.5 million. At the same time there are hopeful reports of the spread of AIDS being brought under control, for example in several East African countries. Still, AIDS impacts women more than any other group. Their effort to fight for their own lives and dignity against this deadly disease can not be overlooked. 
In search of a better life without leaving homeIn Teticic, a village in southern Mexico, MCC works in agriculture and promoting cisterns, stoves and dry latrines. Many people have left the dry, difficult soil of to find work in the United States. Some prosper; others encounter hardships. 
Elections in CongoThe Democratic Republic of Congo holds its first democratic elections in more than 40 years. 
PakistanMCC is sponsoring the construction of several homes in Jared following the 2005 earthquake, with Ten Thousand Villages partner and Pakistan-based JAKCISS rugs. 
Summer serviceMelodie Holmes is a participant in the Summer Service Program which enables people of diverse ethnic backgrounds to work with a church or service agency in their home communities. 
Facing AIDS in UgandaMeet Ugandans living with AIDS. Learn how they are receiving care from the MCC-supported Mengo Hospital in the capital, Kampala, and AIDS Education Group for Youth in Kamuli district. 
Working for a better future in LebanonShiite Muslims, Palestinian refugees and young peacemakers are some of the people MCC is working with in Lebanon. Much of the country is still affected by the Lebanese Civil War, which lasted from 1975 to 1990. 
Conflict and peacemaking in UgandaMany people in northern Uganda are trying to resume normal lives three years after they were attacked by the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group. In northeastern Uganda, peacemakers are working to defuse an ongoing conflict between the Iteso and Karimajong peoples. 
Catching the rainBefore a cistern was built in his community, Geraldo Jorge da Silva walked long distances to fetch water. In Brazil's arid northeast, MCC is helping build cisterns that can provide drinking water throughout the year. 
Christians in SyriaBishop Selwanos Butros al-Nameh grew up in the Homs orphanage and is now the leader of a Syrian Orthodox diocese. 
Amor Viviente — Living loveMany members of the Metairie, La., congregation Amor Viviente, including Janice Rodriguez, suffered severe damage to their homes. Yet they are finding strength in their faith, drawing together and reaching out to their community. TO THE GALLERY
Harvesting water with earth and stoneFinding water is a daily struggle in rural Kenya. The only source of water for thousands of people on the eastern edge of Kenya's highlands is the sandy bed of a river. TO THE GALLERY
New boats, new nets — recovery in IndiaOff southern India's coast, Shanmugam maneuvers a new fiberglass boat. Two MCC partner agencies helped fisherfolk replace boats lost in the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami. Fishing provides not only livelihoods; it represents a way of life. Both were destroyed, at least temporarily, after the tsunami. TO THE GALLERY
After the Waves — Rebuilding in IndonesiaNine-year-old Maria Ulfa and her mother survived the harrowing Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami by climbing onto the roof of their house in Meulaboh, on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra. Their house rendered uninhabitable, mother and daughter made their way to the city of Banda Aceh to seek relatives. TO THE GALLERY
Stitching in Cumberland ValleyAt the Cumberland Valley Relief Center in Chambersburg, Pa., volunteers turn out quilts for MCC relief sales, comforters for MCC work overseas and the cloth bags that hold supplies for MCC school or health kits. TO THE GALLERY
Images from a Common Place magazineOver the past 10 years, MCC’s free magazine, “a Common Place”, has used photographs to help tell the stories of people around the world. TO THE GALLERY
MCC Summer ServiceMCC Summer Service worker Oliver Black Jr. makes a sale. MCC’s Summer Service program enables youth of color to work in their home communities for 10 weeks during the summer. TO THE GALLERY
MCC in ChadDimanche Ollmar, a seamstress, is a member of the MCC supported women’s group, Capable Women, in Ardeb-Njoumbal near N'Djamena. During the year she sells 4 to 5 shirts per month, but around Christmas and New Years she can sell 10 per week. TO THE GALLERY
Working for peace in BurundiA gallery of photographs about MCC’s work with peace committees in Burundi. TO THE GALLERY
When the floodwaters subside …MCC and its partners in India have begun the long term process of assisting tsunami survivors in rebuilding their lives, homes and communities. TO THE GALLERY
New Homes in El SalvadorMany houses in rural El Salvador are damaged by natural disasters, economic inequalities and the legacy of civil war. In some rural communities, Salvadorans are building safe and sturdy homes, TO THE GALLERY
The forgotten tragedy in AmbokoThe Amboko refugee camp near Gore in one of several UNHCR sponsored refugee camps in southern Chad for those fleeing war and political violence in the Central African Republic. Each refugee has a harrowing story of lost family members and destroyed homes. TO THE GALLERY
Brazil — Easing BurdensInformal garbage recyclers, called catadores, search through a new load of garbage at the municipal dump of Olinda, Brazil, for anything that can be used or sold. TO THE GALLERY
Beautiful Crafts, Changed LivesHaitian scuplture, Vietnamese baskets and paper from India are some of the products, along with the artisans that create them, featured in this photo gallery highlighting the work of Ten Thousand Villages. TO THE GALLERY
Bangladesh — Tending the soilMore than 80 percent of residents of Bangladesh still depend on agriculture to make a living. Farmers often support themselves and their families on plots of 2 acres or less. TO THE GALLERY
Darfur’s Deadly ExodusSince April 2003, nearly 1.5 million people have lost their homes in a wave of attacks on villages in Darfur, the westernmost region of Sudan. TO THE GALLERY
Living with the WallThe construction of an Israeli security wall or “separation wall” will eventually stretch 730 kilometers (453 miles) zigzagging along the boundary between Israel and the West Bank. TO THE GALLERY
Safe Warm and DryIn the mountains of Appalachia, jobs are scarce and families with limited means often can’t afford the major repairs needed to keep their houses safe, warm and dry. TO THE GALLERY
Food: A feast of sharingOne out of every seven people in the world does not have enough food to sustain a normal, active life. MCC provides emergency relief, as in this Afar community in northeast Ethiopia, where Hisama Ali Mohammed holds bread made with donated grain. TO THE GALLERY
MCC in ZambiaAt Hamoonde Basic School in Zambia's rural Southern Province, children crowd into classrooms, eager to grasp an education they believe will improve their lives. But their prospects for schooling are far from certain. TO THE GALLERY
MCC in the MaritimesDespite their relatively few numbers, there’s a steady energy and rhythm to the work of Mennonites in Canada’s Atlantic provinces. TO THE GALLERY
Ethiopia — In search of a better future.Like his father before him, Ahmed Hamito is a farmer in Boricha district, southern Ethiopia. For many years, he says, locally-raised food was enough to support their community. But as the population has grown, every available scrap of land has been seized for grazing animals and growing crops. TO THE GALLERY
Water is lifeWater is life — but for many families around the world, this basic need is out of reach. TO THE GALLERY
Marked for life?Gangs in Honduras.An explosion of membership in violent street gangs has devastated Honduras and other Central American countries. TO THE GALLERY |
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