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Kyrgyzstan: Blog Post: VIDEO: Bleeding hearts and pragmatic minds
Ainash Mamatova and her husband had just finished remodeling their home earlier this year; it had taken them many years to save up enough money to do this. Then violence broke out in Kyrgyzstan. Read More ›
Haiti: H is for Haiti! Mercy Corps Partners with Sesame Workshop to Help Haiti's Children
Mercy Corps has teamed with Sesame Workshop to integrate Elmo, Cookie Monster, and other Sesame Street characters into the emotional recovery work we're doing with children in Haiti. Read More ›
Blog Post: Gooooaaal! Scoring strong communities through sports
As we've seen from the World Cup, sport brings people together. That's why Mercy Corps uses it to promote tolerance, reinforce social messages and help traumatized youth. Read More ›
Recent Blog Posts
VIDEO: Bleeding hearts and pragmatic minds
Posted July 30, 2010 5:39 am by Mary Tam
Ainash Mamatova and her husband had just finished remodeling their home earlier this year; it had taken them many years to save up enough money to do this. Then violence broke out in Kyrgyzstan.
"Is it healthy food or not?"
Posted July 29, 2010 10:50 pm by Piva Bell
It seems like — recently — the students of Aisyiyah Suka Ramai Kindergarten in Aceh have become really aware on what kind of food their mothers cook for them.
World, meet these butterflies
Posted July 29, 2010 1:57 am by Julisa Tambunan
When we first kicked off the Global Citizen Corps programme in Indonesia earlier this year, we didn’t expect that more than 700 young people of Jakarta would apply to be GCC leaders in over a month period of recruitment.
Iraq's women: worth the risk
Posted July 27, 2010 4:06 pm by Lyndsey Romick
Iraq's most recent election has left its political system in knots. But this isn't stopping Mercy Corps from helping to empower those most affected by insecurity: women and girls.
Where the road ends
Posted July 24, 2010 2:43 am by Sarah Royall
At the end of the road in Tajikistan, you can find incredible people who not only endure, they find a way to thrive with a little help from Mercy Corps.
Chile's first Comfort for Kids programmes hold closing ceremony
Posted July 22, 2010 7:34 pm by Sandra Castañeda Contreras
On a chilly winter day in the community of Penco, we held the closing ceremony for the Comfort for Kids programme, implemented by the Educacion Popular en Salud (or EPES) Foundation with the support of Mercy Corps.
After the bombings in Kampala, learning from survival
Posted July 21, 2010 7:16 am by Lisa Inks
When I prepared to come to Uganda this summer to do a peacebuilding evaluation with Mercy Corps, I prepared for danger. “Be careful,” some of my colleagues said. “Always wear shoes you can run in.”
Greening Afghanistan
Posted July 20, 2010 11:13 pm by Elizabeth Hallinan
Afghanistan isn't all dust and desert like you see on the news. In green northern Afghanistan, Mercy Corps is working to reforest bare land to preserve soil and protect downstream agricultural land from flood damage.
Taking lessons learned from Nepal to Haiti
Posted July 18, 2010 9:40 am by Lisa Hoashi
In late April of this year, Kristina Carvonis was asked to go to Nepal. She left her native city of Port-au-Prince, which had been devastated by the 7.0-magnitude January 12 earthquake, to attend a conference in Kathmandu.
Photos from a busy day in Port-au-Prince
Posted July 16, 2010 10:19 pm by Lisa Hoashi
Every day is a busy one for our team here, but today seemed especially so. This morning, I headed out to visit a camp where we've given residents temporary clean up and rebuilding jobs.
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How your cash helped reclaim Haiti from the rubble
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Jan 26, 2010
Mercy Corps aid means first hot food for survivors
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Jan 25, 2010
Quake children's trauma help
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Jan 24, 2010
Scots rally to aid Haiti efforts
BBC - Politics Show
Jan 21, 2010
Food donations reach stricken quake survivors
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Jan 19, 2010
Donations flood in for Haiti quake relief effort
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