Rural

Perfect Harmony Family ›

Country: China

Blog Post:  Protecting Ethiopia's people, animals and environment ›

Country: Ethiopia

We’ve been in the car for a long time in the last couple of days. We’re in Gashamo, a small town in the desert.

Blog Post:  Now it’s time to trade ›

Country: Indonesia

"Going to shop for your everyday needs — rice, vegetables, fruit, fish, meat, spices, various food...please visit PASAI TANI!"

Five Years of Hard Work, Together ›

Country: Indonesia

My name is Nurhayati. I'm 52 years old, and I live in the village of Rima Jeunue, Indonesia. Five years ago, my life changed forever.

A Woman's Touch ›

Country: Indonesia

Five years after the tsunami, life has returned to the village of Klieng Meuriah — thanks to the hard work of 24-year-old Fiza Khalida and her neighbors.

Blog Post:  Six days on the road ›

Country: Tajikistan

I'm both exhausted and exhilarated by my six-day journey through the red clay rocky back-roads of Tajikistan's border area with Kyrgyzstan in the Rasht Valley.

Blog Post:  The tenuous return  ›

Country: Uganda

While many long-displaced Acholi people have returned home to their pre-war villages, the return is not always easy.

Blog Post:  Every child should be in the picture ›

Country: Liberia

In Parker Town, Gbarpolu County, in the north of Liberia where Mercy Corps has a number of agriculture programmes, I rounded up these children for a group portrait.

Blog Post:  Grow what you eat, eat what you grow ›

Country: Liberia

Mercy Corps is working with Liberian farmers to coax their next meal – and all the meals of their future – out of the ground.

Blog Post:  These children play with nothing, anything, everything  ›

Country: Liberia

What makes Liberian children smile? One of the few "toys" I saw was an old cassava grater reimagined as a tiny car.