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Sri Lanka:
One Table: Farming Rice, Intensively
Kanthi Weerasinghe is one of 160 farmers in the village of Yahangala East experimenting with a method of growing rice called SRI, which is short for System of Rice Intensification. Read More ›
Indonesia:
Recycled Life
Darpi, a 56-year-old woman who’s been living in Jakarta's Penjaringan slum since the mid-1970s, is proof that things can improve. Read More ›
Pakistan:
Giving Campaign: Crisis in Pakistan
Fighting between the Pakistan Army and Taliban militants has displaced about 2.5 million people in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Read More ›
Indonesia:
Special Report: Nineteen: The Lives of Jakarta's Street Vendors
Street vendors, hawking anything from food to medicine, dominate Jakarta's urban landscape even as they scrape by to provide for their families. Here are five of their stories. Read More ›
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Tools for Life
Posted July 2, 2009 11:02 am by Danielle Ancin
I teach weekly yoga classes to fifth graders at a school in Bogota's Ciudad Bolivar, where many youth I teach have been forcibly displaced by Colombia's ongoing conflict.

Getting to "Yes" in Iraq
Posted July 1, 2009 10:52 am by Arthur Martirosyan
Iraqis are celebrating on the streets as the U.S. withdraws its troops from the major urban areas of Iraq, but the fresh violence in Kirkuk serves as a sober reminder of a fragile security condition.

A ritual for healing
Posted July 1, 2009 4:26 am by Amy Spindler
The soul is significant in building community capacity through relating, healing and celebrating.

A ride with Erkana
Posted July 1, 2009 12:47 am by Jameson Gadzirai
Erkana's dream is to wake up one day and be able to read something; a newspaper in English or a textbook, anything written.

Ned Lamont calls out Mercy Corps' work on The Huffington Post
Posted June 30, 2009 5:10 pm by Joy Portella
Ned Lamont — former Democratic Senate candidate in Connecticut and Mercy Corps board member — discusses the "Independence Day" aspects of U.S. troops pulling out of Iraqi cities.
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