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

Date

November 17, 1953

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Persuade or win support

Themes

Religion, Empire and colonialism

Event

Cold War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, November 17, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729988, 306-PPA-87).

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.

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