Articles : Emily Will
April 1 issue
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Photo by Emily Will/MDS
MDS not done with Sandy
CRISFIELD, Md. — Hazel Cropper, 74, is the world’s fastest crab picker. For years she’s pitted her nimble fingers against those of locals and outsiders in the National Hard Crab Derby, held annually in this Chesapeake Bay-side town.
Several times she’s broken her record speeds for extracting meat from steamed blue crabs.
Dec. 24, 2012 issue
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Storm floods woman’s home; cleanup renews her faith
HOWARD BEACH, N.Y. — Hurricane Sandy is testing Mary Roche’s emotional and spiritual fortitude.
Dec. 10, 2012 issue
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MCC addresses domestic abuse in Cambodia
“Men are gold, women are cloth.” This Khmer proverb reflects the lowly status women bear in Cambodia, where Women Peacemakers, a Mennonite Central Committee partner, is working to reduce violence against women.
April 2, 2012 issue
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MDS volunteers from four Ohio churches rebuild Ala. meetinghouse
BOLIGEE, Ala. — After a tornado with 150 mph winds flattened the Christian Valley Baptist Church meetinghouse last April 27, people from four Hartville, Ohio, area churches moved in to help rebuild.
March 19, 2012 issue
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MCC partners ease suffering from war, poverty
AKRON, Pa. — Despite war’s obstacles and disruptions, Mennonite Central Committee partners in Afghanistan continue to provide life-enhancing and empowering services to Afghans.
Feb. 13, 2012 issue
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Women’s advocacy era ends
AKRON, Pa. — In 1971 the Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section took a bold action: It invited constituent women’s organizations to send representatives to its meetings at a time when few women served on decision-making boards within Mennonite circles.
Nov. 7, 2011 issue
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MDS responds to forgotten disaster in North Dakota
MINOT, N.D. — A Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator confessed she hadn’t heard of the floods that submerged more than a quarter of the buildings here. She needed a map to locate the city of 40,000 devastated by flooding in June.
Oct. 17, 2011 issue
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MCC supports teaching of traditional skills in Laos
AKRON, Pa. — Fourth-graders, arranged in three groups around well-worn desks, concentrate as they ply knives to split green bamboo into strips. Later, they will weave the lengths into rice-storage baskets.
June 20, 2011 issue
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Tornadoes spin MDS to action
LITITZ, Pa. — Tornadoes have struck with unusual frequency and ferocity this spring. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 546 fatalities nationwide, the highest death toll from tornadoes since it began gathering statistics in 1950, and well above the annual average of 80 tornado-related deaths.
April 4, 2011 issue
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MCC helps Brazil churches confront domestic abuse
AKRON, Pa. — Ana Lúcia’s husband frequently beats her. When he threatened to kill her, the 30-year-old woman, a member of an evangelical church in Brazil’s northeast state of Pernambuco, shared her situation with church sisters.
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