Arab Awakening

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Yemen: A witness to distress in beautiful land July 19, 2012

Since Mercy Corps began working in Yemen in October 2010, we have kept our main office in the capital city of Sana’a. I see more and more women and young girls begging for food on the streets. Last month, nearly 100 soldiers were killed here by a suicide bomb.
Yemen: Relief and development in the slums of the forgotten July 19, 2012

Called akhdam, “the servants,” by their fellow countrymen — and muhamashyn, “the marginalised,” by organisations working to help them — Yemen’s outcasts stand outside of the nation’s already tumultuous social, economic and political life.
Libya: Benghazi activists honor the price of war April 25, 2012

One of the great things about my job is that I get to meet people who contribute to social change from a million different angles. But of all the people I’ve met through my work at Mercy Corps, few have been as inspiring as a group of activists I met in Benghazi during a trip to Libya last week.
Tunisia: After Arab Awakening: 'Now we need to change ourselves' January 31, 2012

If you want to know what the Arab Awakening is all about, hang out with teenagers in Tunisia for an afternoon.