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title: 'Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 6: Methodist Youth Fellowship building at Gunong Rapat (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-e-6-methodist-youth-gunong-rapat-1953/
description: Young people shovel gravel and carry buckets at a building site with a thatched hut behind. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 6: Methodist Youth Fellowship building at Gunong Rapat, 1953 US poster: Young people shovel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/malaya-today-set-e-6-methodist-youth-gunong-rapat-1953.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/malaya-today-set-e-6-methodist-youth-gunong-rapat-1953.jpg)

# Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 6: Methodist Youth Fellowship building at Gunong Rapat (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)

Young people shovel gravel and carry buckets at a building site with a thatched hut behind. The caption says Methodist Youth Fellowship members from Malaya, Siam and Indonesia are building a church, community hall, clinic and pastor's house in a Chinese New Village. The tell is plain-folks: ordinary young volunteers doing manual work stand for community self-help.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
MALAYA TODAY  PICTURE SET "E"  SOCIAL WELFARE

Girls and boys of the Methodist Youth Fellowship from Malaya, Siam and Indonesia, build a church, community hall, clinic and pastor's house in the Chinese New Village of Gunong Rapat, north-west Malaya.

[6]
```

Sheet number appears in a circle at lower left.

[← Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 5: Sungei Besi Approved School for Senior Boys (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-e-5-sungei-besi-approved-school-1953/) [Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 7: British woman welfare worker in a Malayan New Village (English photo poster distributed in Malaya) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-e-7-british-welfare-worker-new-village-1953/)

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