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Our work to build healthy communities, healthy families and healthy individuals is at the foundation of Mercy Corps' vision for social change.

By partnering with village health committees to government ministers, Mercy Corps helps build local infrastructure to improve maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition, combat infectious diseases including TB and HIV/AIDS and provide physical and mental health care in emergencies.

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Visitors to Cucanha, Guatemala's health clinic are greeted by Rosmina's warm smile. As the local health coordinator, Rosmina offers families critical health services, education and advice.

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Promoting 'Early and Exclusive' Breastfeeding

 Breastfeeding rates may be at a 20-year high in the U.S., but they're alarmingly low in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mercy Corps is helping mothers and clinics give at-risk infants a healthier start.

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Restocking Hospital Closets in Gaza

 Mercy Corps helped restock linen shelves at Gaza's four main hospitals by distributing nearly 500 doctor's robes, more than 400 patient gowns and 1,354 bedsheets.

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Three Wails
Two visitors experienced the fragility of life in Niger firsthand in the desert-fringed town of Sanam.

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