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OVERVIEW Both rural families and urban entrepreneuers in Kyrgyzstan are building profitable businesses thanks to Mercy Corps' Kompanion Financial Group, the country's leading small-scale lender. In the country's impoverished Ferghana Valley region, Mercy Corps is bringing together neighboring communities in a new spirit of economic cooperation. Our school-feeding programs augment nutrition for 60,000 students, and we're partnering with more than 600 communities to repair, expand and construct school facilities. Read more >	Nazira Kerimova, a 32-year-old mother of two, used a $325 Mercy Corps "microloan" to open a handicrafts workshop and create much-needed jobs in rural Kyrgyzstan.

Housing Quake Survivors

Mercy Corps is helping house families left homeless after an Oct. 5 earthquake struck Kyrgyzstan's mountainous Alai Region.

The Apple Project Video

This nine-minute documentary shows every step of the Apple Project, Mercy Corps' program to help farmers grow better varieties of apples and to increase their financial...

Aziz: Welding His Way to Work

Few jobs are easy to find in the Ferghana Valley. But apprenticeships can improve the odds.



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