An education within reach
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Photo by LaShinda ClarkMCC's Global Family program supports schools and students in more than 40 countries around the world. In Morapai, India, 12-year-old Tushi Naskar, center, concentrates while taking her exams. She is an eighth-grade student at St. Anne's. Click here [3] to learn more about Global Family.
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Photo by LaShinda ClarkSt. Anne's headmistress, Sister Rickta visits the home of St. Anne's teacher Sharmila Midday. Midday's sister and baby are in the background. MCC's Global Family program helps support more than a dozen students at the school.
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Photo by LaShinda ClarkIn Kolkata, India, Puja Rana, a 12-grade student at Ling Liang English School, combs her hair for school as she starts her day at 6:45 am. MCC's Global Family program supports the education of hundreds of students in India. Click here [8] for a photo gallery of Rana's day.
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Photo by Melissa EngleIn northern Guatemala, Saturday schools such as this one provide basic education for students who can't attend school during the week or weren't able to study when they were younger.
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Photo by Melissa EngleA literacy program in Chiquixji, Guatemala teaches adults such as Fidelina Ba Tiul how to read and write in Spanish and K'ekchi.
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Photo by Melissa EngleStudents at the Colegio Menonita Saraxoch, a Saturday school in northern Guatemala, take a break from class. Read more about Ismael Ramiro Cucul Rax in the March-April issue of A Common Place magazine.
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Photo by Melissa EngleDiala, right, studies at a Latin Patriarchal school in the village of Wahadneh, Jordan. MCC's Global Family program helps support the school. MCC also funded the construction of a peace garden where Muslim and Christian students, as well as adults from the community, can come to meet, play, relax, and pray.
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Photo by Melissa EngleRazan Jamil, a student at a Latin Patriarchal school in the village of Wahadneh, Jordan, hangs on the monkey bars in a peace garden that MCC funds helped to build. In the foreground is Ghaddir Riyadh.
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Photo by Melissa EngleAt the Dao Xa preschool in northern Vietnam, cook Duong Thi Hong Nhung and teacher Nguyen Thi Hoang Yen serve lunch.
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Photo by Melissa EngleAt a preschool supported by MCC Global Family program in northern Vietnam, teacher Duong Thi Le Thanh rinses washcloths and gives them to the children to wash their faces.
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Photo by Matthew LesterHarun Bumbe, left, and Geoffrey Matiko sing at the Menno Kids Academy at the Mathare North Mennonite Church in an economically depressed area of Nairobi, Kenya. The school is supported by MCC's Global Family program.
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Photo by Matthew LesterStudents of Menno Kids Academy, which is supported by MCC's Global Family program, sing during worship at Mathare North Mennonite Church.
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