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	<title>Salvaging a Dream</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/microenterprise/2760/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Opening a retail store is a scary proposition anytime. Doing so in a downturned economy can be downright terrifying.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:41:27 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Hurricane-Displaced Families Face Uncertainty Upon Return</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/emergencies/2633/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav's landfall in Louisiana, Mercy Corps is determining how best to help storm-affected families through neighborhood partners and local organizations.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:43:42 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>In Gustav's Aftermath, Mercy Corps Ready to Help Neighborhoods</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/2618/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav's landfall in Louisiana, Mercy Corps is preparing to help storm-affected families. We have worked in the region since just days after Hurricane Katrina, and helped put together a network of local organizations that stand ready to take action.

&quot;We're known here as a group that bolsters neighborhoods in distress,&quot; said Rick Denhart, Mercy Corps' Program Director in New Orelans. &quot;Strong neighborhood coalitions are pivotal in gearing up for the storm and its possible aftermath, and we're here to help them.&quot;

Mercy Corps has helped build local organizations' capacity to respond to their neighborhoods' needs in this kind of situation. This readiness is proving critical in preparations for the storm.

&quot;At some of the neighborhood meetings, local leaders are asking each resident  ‘where are you going and are you ready?' There is a concerted effort to track one another, because so many people were &quot;lost&quot; to other communities [after Hurricane Katrina] and have still not been heard from,&quot; Denhart explained.

Hurricane Gustav made landfall on Monday, September 1 &amp;mdash; a little more than three years after Hurricane Katrina's devastating blow. There are reports of widespread flooding and storm damage, as well as some water coming in over levees in New Orleans. Nearly two million people fled coastal areas over the weekend, including tens of thousands who evacuated cities like New Orleans in anticipation of the storm.

&quot;We applaud the local, state and federal authorities that are working together to coordinate a plan of action,&quot; said Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer. &quot;As an organization that stays in close touch with neighborhood leaders and community first responders, we're prepared to assist in an way we can.&quot;

Mercy Corps has extensive disaster experience along the U.S. Gulf Coast. We mounted an emergency response to Hurricane Katrina, assisting communities in Louisiana and Mississippi. Initial deliveries of critical supplies were quickly followed by counseling programs for children and support to hurricane-damaged schools and neighborhoods.

For the last three years, Mercy Corps has helped neighborhood groups organize and provide services to families returning to their homes after the storm. We've also spearheaded a movement to use deconstruction, an approach that dismantles homes and reuses building materials, as an alternative to demolition.

In fact, the materials from houses deconstructed by Mercy Corps have already been used to help families protect their houses from the hurricane, and will certainly be used by those who need to rebuild.





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	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:28:43 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Video: Three Stories from Mercy Corps Northwest</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/economicdevelopment/2533/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Hear stories from three clients about how they've been able to grow their small businesses with help from Mercy Corps Northwest.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:13:49 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Leading Businesses, Cities and Non-Profits Join &quot;Together&quot; to Fight Climate Change</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/2442/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Together unites brands, cities and non-profits to make it easier for every American to fight climate change.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:12:49 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Supporting Oxfam America's Call to Modernize Foreign Aid</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/2399/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps commends the release of a new Oxfam America report as a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about how to make each U.S. dollar spent on overseas assistance as effective as possible.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:47:04 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Building a Model for Change</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/entrepreneurship/2108/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Outdoor and lifestyle clothing company &amp;mdash; and Mercy Corps partner &amp;mdash; Nau approaches business with a new set of values that place philanthropy and sustainability as a top priority.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:04:56 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Encouraging Tolerance</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/silentdisasters/haltingaids/2083/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[A Alexii, a Global Citizen Corps student leader, believes that tolerance of HIVIDS is a primary goal.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:32:38 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Finding an Answer Together</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/hivaids/2084/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[A Amy asks Americans of all ages to get behind youth to provide solutions for those living with HIVIDS.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:42:59 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Video: Deconstruction Documentary</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/environment/2024/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[This brief video documentary, which discusses and demonstrates deconstruction, was filmed during Mercy Corps' Flight of Friendship to New Orleans in April 2007.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:47:43 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Play Locally, Impact Globally</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/1961/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Using art to affect social change is an age-old concept, but one that jazz pianist Darrell Grant firmly believes in.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:27:50 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Two Years Later, Still Working for Recovery</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/hurricanekatrina/1922/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Two years after Katrina, the challenges are still staggering. But Mercy Corps is still there, working alongside the people who are committed to bringing their city back.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:24:47 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Building By Dismantling</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/hurricanekatrina/1897/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Rick Denhart, Mercy Corps New Orleans-based Director of Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery, has been in construction - and deconstruction - all his life.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:33:33 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Using Film to 'Weather the Storm'</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/1757/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Giving New Orleans middle schoolers video cameras produced an enlightening, 26-minute documentary on how Hurricane Katrina changed their lives.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:23:04 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Flight of Friendship to New Orleans</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/1761/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The CEO of Portland's Urban League chronicles his experiences in April's &quot;Flight of Friendship.&quot;]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:04:52 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>New Orleans Is Us</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/hurricanekatrina/1755/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The author finds that one &quot;last, unheralded, unpublicized, hardly planned and barely organized event&quot; embodied the entire trip.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:17:27 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>'Ain't Nothing But a Movie'</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/1762/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[To some New Orleanians, it's as if they are living through someone else's life, and not their own.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:14:12 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Getting Grounded</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/1763/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Right now, the Big Easy is anything but.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:01:46 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>A Night in a FEMA Trailer</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/unitedstates/1760/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Marcus Mundy, in New Orleans for the Flight of Friendship, spends the night in his cousin's FEMA trailer.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:42:28 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Books for Broadmoor</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/hurricanekatrina/1754/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Powell's Books, Mercy Corps and the Flight of Friendship are helping rebuild the book collection at the Katrina-damaged Rosa Keller Library in New Orleans.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:50:22 -0700</pubDate>
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