Emergencies

What We're Doing in Haiti ›

Country: Haiti

Mercy Corps’ team of emergency response experts is working to meet survivors’ immediate needs – water, food, shelter, hygiene – while laying the foundation for long-term recovery and self-sufficiency.

Haiti Response Team ›

Country: Haiti

Mercy Corps has deployed an A-team of humanitarian first responders. These experts from around the world have collective experience that includes responses to the China earthquake (2008), Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (2008), and Hurricane Katrina (2005).

Blog Post:  Spring of hope: EPES provides emergency water to earthquake survivors ›

Country: Chile

Within 24 hours of the earthquake — and still unable to locate several of its staff members— EPES, Mercy Corps' local partner in Chile, was in action.

Blog Post:  Training to help children heal — a healing process in itself ›

Country: Haiti

I’m Fabiola, a part of Mercy Corps Haiti’s staff of nationals, hired as the communication officer about three weeks ago.

Blog Post:  In Chile, hard work and messages of hope ›

Country: Chile

Concepción felt like a war zone. When we arrived last Thursday — five days after the earthquake struck — an 18-hour curfew was in place and the military was posted throughout the city.

Blog Post:  Haiti, nine weeks after the earthquake — what happens next ›

Country: Haiti

Mercy Corps has been focused on emergency response. We’ve been busy with distributions, Comfort for Kids, water and sanitation provision.

Blog Post:  'Byenvenu a New York' ›

Country: Haiti

Students at Mercy Corps' New York Action Centre prepare a special kit to help make Haitian children who have been relocated with their families a little bit more comfortable in their new city.

Blog Post:  Unleashing the Haitian enterprising spirit ›

Country: Haiti

On my recent trip to Haiti, I was filled first with despair and then hope.

The Next Steps to Haiti's Recovery ›

Country: Haiti

In the devastated but proud neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince, thousands of people have organised into local committees to help manage, guide and pitch in for what needs to be done in their communities.

Blog Post:  How we’ll help transform Haiti ›

Country: Haiti

By investing in small and medium enterprises across key business sectors, we will create lasting, meaningful, good-paying jobs all over the country.