Southern Africa alumni reunion

From left: Lois Baerg, administrative coordinator for southern Africa programs; Kenia Vasquez, 2011-2012 YAMEN participant; and Melanie Jones, MCC representative for Mozambique, sit outside one of the newly constructed classrooms at Machanga secondary school in Mozambique. 2012.

In this 1965 photo, Ronald Mathies, a participant with MCC's Teachers Abroad Program (TAP), works with students to ready a pole and hoop for a basketball court at Blantyre Secondary School in Malawi. Mathies went on to become MCC's Executive Director from 1996-2005. 1965.

In Lesotho 1982, MCC service worker Mary Erin (right) and Mantsoaki, pictured with her children Refuochape (girl) and Shao (boy), discuss starting a village day care center. Mantsoaki is showing Mary her book with things she had made during her training to be a teacher.

Distribution of corn supplied by MCC in Machokwe, Panda District, Inhambane Province, Mozambique in 1985, during the civil war which claimed the lives of over a million people through fighting and starvation.

Members of the Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM) Women’s Society hand sew clothing for drought and war victims in Mozambique's Inhambane Province at the CCM headquarters in Maputo in 1985.

MCC worker Carl Stauffer, right and Rev. Deolinda Teka, of MCC partner Council of Christian Churches of Angola, left, sign diplomas for a Nonviolence and Conflict Transformation and Trauma Healing seminar that took place October 9–21, 2000 in Luanda, Angola. Stauffer, MCC Regional Peace Consultant was based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Students from the Pudulogong School for the Blind sing and play instruments with Loretta Sawatsky Thorleifson, a Serving and Learning Together (SALT) participant based in Mochudi, Botswana in 1982/1983. Sawatsky Thorleifson was among the first cohort of Manitobans to participate in the SALT program, embarking on her journey in summer 1982. Exact date of photo is unknown.

Issa Ebombolo (right), National Peacebuilding Coordinator for MCC Zambia/Malawi, and Jason Sipulwa, Assistant Project Manager for Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding with MCC's Seed program, in April 2021.