Health

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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Japan: All the colors of helping survivors June 9, 2011

Fumie Sugawara sits on the blue tarpaulin that's spread across the floor the gymnasium. A bright yellow truck and other vibrant toys are gathered around her. Fumie engages two young girls in an imaginative game using a dozen different shades of Play-Doh.
Tajikistan: Expectant mothers helped by Mercy Corps' Maternal and Child Health program June 8, 2011

Expectant mothers and mothers-in-law at a focus group discussion in Gonchi district, Tajikistan
Tajikistan: Back in Tajik land June 8, 2011

I’m back in Tajikistan, six months after my first visit. This time, I’m here to support our field team with the midterm evaluation being conducted for our Maternal and Child Health programme. Accompanying me is Donna Sillan, a consultant we have contracted to write the evaluation.
Guatemala: Guess who's cooking tonight in Guatemala? June 1, 2011

“Bienvenidos. "Loq ` le k`ulumnik. Welcome” to PROCOMIDA's final male recipe competition!
Japan: Keeping a space safe May 15, 2011

I was really excited about today's possibilities for stories here in Japan; we were going to see Comfort for Kids activities in the city of Kesennuma. But, as soon as we arrived at our destination, everything changed.
Guatemala: The different sparks of a cooking recipe April 29, 2011

Part of the health and nutrition strengthening strategies used by Mercy Corps' PROCOMIDA programme with Guatemalan communities consists of recipe demonstrations to beneficiary mothers.
Guatemala: PROCOMIDA meeting in an Alta Verapaz village April 26, 2011

Women and their children attend a workshop put on by Mercy Corps' PROCOMIDA programme, which helps improve the nutritional status and health of women and children in some of Guatemala's poorest areas.
Guatemala: Traveling the roads of resilient children April 26, 2011

I recently went to visit the communities of Yalchactic I and Salvador Chizol, near the city of Cobán in Guatemala's mountainous Alta Verapaz region. A large portion of the access roads to these communities are in very bad shape.
Thoughts on World Malaria Day April 25, 2011

Today is World Malaria Day. The first time I heard about malaria was from my grandmother, who endured the disease as a little girl in Arkansas during the early part of last century.
Indonesia: When a basic need becomes a luxury April 13, 2011