Health
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Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Our work to build healthy communities, families and individuals is at the heart of Mercy Corps' vision for social change. By partnering with a range of partners, from village health committees to government agencies, we help build the means to improve maternal, newborn and child health, ensure proper nutrition and combat infectious diseases.
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Playing earthquake while the ground rumbles and tempers flare March 15, 2010
The Educacion Popular en Salud (or EPES, Mercy Corps' local partner in Chile) Centre here — with its wooden gazebo and jungle gym — is an oasis of respite from the surrounding catastrophe, two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Concepción, Hualpén, Talcahuano and neighboring c
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Spring of hope: EPES provides emergency water to earthquake survivors March 10, 2010
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Haiti: Training to help children heal — a healing process in itself March 10, 2010
I’m Fabiola, a part of Mercy Corps Haiti’s staff of nationals, hired as the communication officer about three weeks ago. Needless to say, keeping up with Mercy Corps’ energy and momentum has been challenging but mostly fun and almost always rewarding.
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In Chile, hard work and messages of hope March 9, 2010
Hector Reyes —a staff member for Educacion Popular en Salud (EPES), Mercy Corps' local partner here in Chile — and I returned from the earthquake-shattered city of Concepción late last night.
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Haiti: Video: Helping Haiti's children laugh, play and sing again February 19, 2010
Today I visited a daycare where Mercy Corps' Comfort for Kids programme is helping dozens of young earthquake survivors to celebrate their lives and friends again. Here's a video I took that shows just how amazing the spirit of these games and this music really is.
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Haiti: Emergency food aid delivery to Port-au-Prince's General Hospital (8 photos) January 21, 2010
Today we delivered three days' worth of high-protein biscuits to 300 patients and their family members.
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Indonesia: I am here, Boss December 23, 2009
Her name is Marhamah, but people call her May. She is not yet 32 years old and already has three children. Her youngest child is seven-month-old girl who is breastfeeding.
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Indonesia: The hands that rock the cradle December 22, 2009
I often wonder how a single city could be so extremely diverse, both economically and socially, as my hometown, Jakarta.
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Indonesia: Video: "My Child's Café" nourishes kids in North Jakarta December 11, 2009
We would like to thank those who have given online to Mercy Corps by posting this three-minute video of a programme made possible by your donations: Healthy Street Foods in Jakarta.
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Indonesia: Fine, friendly Faroe December 7, 2009
I was there — at a breastfeeding workshop last Wednesday — sitting in the back row, observing the six people on stage as they presented each and every step they had taken to be champions.