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Samoa:
Blog Post: Honored to be back among a people I love
It had been 33 years since I had lived there, but when I heard that a tsunami had struck the Samoa Islands, I was taken back to a time when I had lived there as a young missionary. Read More ›
India:
Helping Assamese Women Go Back to School
With funding from the Western Union Foundation, Mercy Corps is helping Anami and more than 300 other Assamese women learn to read and write. Read More ›
Central African Republic:
Blog Post: Fighting for their homes
In the Central African Republic, women’s rights here are few, and the enforcement of the laws is almost non-existent. Most women are not even aware they have many rights. Read More ›
Zimbabwe:
Shipping Books to Zimbabwe Schools
There can be as few as one textbook for as many as 40 students in schools in Zimbabwe — if there are any textbooks at all. The 21,000 we shipped improved the textbook-to-student ratio eightfold at 50 schools. Read More ›
Recent Blog Posts
The drawbacks of women’s equality
Posted November 5, 2009 12:56 am by Annalise Briggs
There is an unrelenting pressure for women to be perfect and to do everything.
Honored to be back among a people I love
Posted November 4, 2009 7:24 pm by Steve Mitchell
It had been 33 years since I had lived there, but when I heard that a tsunami had struck the Samoa Islands, I was taken back to a time when I had lived there as a young missionary.
A new way of supporting Mercy Corps
Posted November 4, 2009 3:57 pm by Floyd Mann
In the past few weeks we've quietly been rolling out a new feature on MercyCorps.org: personal fundraising pages.
Bridging the gap between "us" and "them"
Posted November 4, 2009 1:28 pm by Faith Danforth
Every picture you see here on the Mercy Corps website or on anything you receive in the mail from us — is a real person living a real life somewhere else in the world.
Can you spare a square?
Posted November 4, 2009 3:54 am by Annalise Briggs
I didn’t expect my first blog post from the field to be about sanitation. I thought maybe microfinance or agriculture programs or mobile commerce.
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Community Fundraising ›
Jordan, Oct 27, 2009
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India, Oct 15, 2009
Helping Assamese Women Go Back to School ›
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