China
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Photo: Norman Ng for Mercy Corps
Our strategy
Foster resilience and economic empowerment among vulnerable communities and youth.
The context
While China’s growing economy has created new opportunities for many, the widening gap between rich and poor has created new social and economic challenges. Access to stable livelihoods and adequate services remains a serious challenge. Addressing social disparities is now a high priority.
Our work
- Children & Youth: Improving educational and work opportunities for urban youth who’ve migrated from rural areas
- Disaster preparedness: Helping local governments and communities prepare for natural disasters while improving local livelihoods
- Conflict & Governance: Cultivating skills for social entrepreneurship among young Chinese leaders
All stories about China
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China: Families finding hope after quake May 7, 2013
Our emergency response team has traveled to some of the most remote villages that were destroyed in the 7.0 Ya'an earthquake. See how families are coping and how we're helping them recover.
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China: Notes from the epicenter of the Ya'an earthquake April 24, 2013
After gathering firsthand accounts from hard-hit villages, our teams are focused on needs for clean water and support of mothers and children.
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China: Assessing emergency needs after deadly earthquake in Sichuan province April 20, 2013
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 200 people and injuring more than 14,000.
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China: All-China Youth Federation Delegation to Oregon, June 2010 December 17, 2010
Mercy Corps has worked with the All-China Youth Federation (ACYF) to develop the Social Innovator Leadership Programme.
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China: Welcoming Mercy Corps' newest friends August 9, 2010
While Mercy Corps works in dozens of far-flung locations across the world, we are proud to call the state of Oregon and the city of Portland home. It’s the place that nurtured the culture of innovation, collaboration, and optimism (with a touch of scrappiness) that we prize to this day.
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China: Young earthquake survivors in Qinghai start to tell their story May 14, 2010
Sometimes it’s the intangibles that can make all the difference in healing after a disaster.
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China: Not one missed April 29, 2010
A coupon is a simple piece of paper, but a popular way for customers to exchange something in return for a product or service. Here in Yushu, coupons are helping us a lot in our work by reducing the risk of unfair distribution.
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China: Two thousand hygiene kits unloaded in Yushu April 28, 2010
The truck full of 2,000 hygiene kits — covered with dust and mud — at last arrived in Yushu on the evening of April 26. Their journey from Chengdu, the capital of neighboring Sichuan Province, totaled 1,200 kilometers and 50 hours.
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China: Hope and hygiene kits for China’s Qinghai quake zone April 26, 2010
Hope is the word that comes to mind now when I see Yushu County, the heaviest hit area from the April 14th tremor in Qinghai Province.
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China: Tears in Yushu – Chinese mourn one week after the earthquake April 23, 2010
At 10:00 a.m. on April 21st, just as the snow began to fall, Yushu County was crying.