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Within a country shattered in three pieces, Mercy Corps is helping unite communities to achieve peaceful change.

The Ladies of Mercy Corps Somalia Jeremy Barnicle hosts a revealing roundtable in which he quickly realized his assumptions on Somali women were wrong.	Helping Somalia's Marginalized Minority Mercy Corps is helping protect a community of Somalia's marginalized Bantus from floods.	Shoring Up Riverbanks — and Confidence As part of its cash-for-work program in southern Somalia, Mercy Corps helped villagers in Bandarjadid meet their most pressing need.
Q&A with Abdikadir Mohamed An ethnic Somali, Abdikadir Mohamed has served as Mercy Corps' top representative in Somalia since June 2006.

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Mercy Corps distributed shelter and water supplies to thousands of people along the Somalia-Kenya border.

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Somalia Facts

Population (est. 2007): 10 million
Languages: Somali (official), Arabic, English, Italian
Literacy rate: 37.8%
Life Expectancy for men: 46.7 years
Life Expectancy for women: 50.3 years
Per capital GDP: $600

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