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Helping Assamese Women Go Back to School
India: 

Helping Assamese Women Go Back to School

With funding from the Western Union Foundation, Mercy Corps is helping Anami and more than 300 other Assamese women learn to read and write. Read More ›

Landslides make isolated Indonesian villages resemble 'lost continent'
Indonesia: 

Blog Post: Landslides make isolated Indonesian villages resemble 'lost continent'

My colleagues and I got on motorcycles and headed north out of earthquake-stricken Padang to an isolated area we'd heard was badly affected by landslides. Read More ›

Fighting for their homes
Central African Republic: 

Blog Post: Fighting for their homes

In the Central African Republic, women’s rights here are few, and the enforcement of the laws is almost non-existent. Most women are not even aware they have many rights. Read More ›

Shipping Books to Zimbabwe Schools
Zimbabwe: 

Shipping Books to Zimbabwe Schools

There can be as few as one textbook for as many as 40 students in schools in Zimbabwe — if there are any textbooks at all. The 21,000 we shipped improved the textbook-to-student ratio eightfold at 50 schools. Read More ›

Recent Blog Posts

A land where fifty thousand dollars used to buy you nothing

Posted November 2, 2009 9:45 am by Cully Lundgren

Mercy Corps is committed to our work in Zimbabwe, partnering with communities to improve people's lives despite huge obstacles.

Seeing the work first hand

Posted November 2, 2009 2:50 am by Kate Dilley

It is one thing to read all about the work of an organisation. It is something entirely different to see it with your own eyes. It is inspirational.

The Big Apple

Posted October 30, 2009 1:35 pm by Janelle Wellman

I am living the dream. I am a native Oregonian living in New York City and working for Mercy Corps — my favorite organisation in the world.

A Palestinian camp — not what you might expect

Posted October 28, 2009 2:48 pm by Greg Tuke

When I heard I would be going to a Palestinian camp in Lebanon, I had a really hard time wrapping my brain around it.

Cash-for-work begins in Samoan villages

Posted October 27, 2009 1:08 pm by Carol Ward

We started our cash-for-work programme yesterday, alongside our partners from South Pacific Business Development, in Samoan villages that were devastated by the recent tsunami.


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