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Zimbabwe: Vocational training helps youths find jobs in Zimbabwe August 18, 2011

Twenty-year-old Nyasha Zulu and 21-year-old Simbarashe Mudara have lived most of their lives in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza, 30 kilometers from Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.

Iraq: Mending livelihoods and catching hope in southern Iraq August 18, 2011

Hassan Sabri is a 33-year-old fisherman, and one of the beneficiaries of a recently-completed Mercy Corps Iraq livelihoods project. Our team provided nets to poverty-stricken fishermen in Al Bihar sub-district, which is located 90 kilometers away from the southern city of Basra.

Egypt, Libya, West Bank and Gaza: Reasons for hope August 18, 2011

For much of July, I visited Mercy Corps' country programs in the West Bank and Gaza, Egypt and Libya. On my return, I wanted to share my thoughts on the challenges we face there and also the reasons that I came away hopeful. At the political level, things are fairly bleak.

Somalia: In Mogadishu's overcrowded hospitals August 17, 2011

Somalia: An unimaginable situation August 15, 2011

Yesterday my colleague Cassandra Nelson, on the ground in Somalia, sent in several photographs of what she was seeing in Mogadishu, the country's crisis-ravaged capital to which our emergency response team has deployed.

Guatemala: Marching for change August 15, 2011

Hundreds of women in Guatemala paraded through the streets of Cobán on March 8 — International Women's Day — with a palpable feeling of pride and hope for the future.

Kenya: Saadia Farah and her daughter Amina in Wajir County, Kenya August 14, 2011

Eighteen-year-old Saadia Farah and her one-year-old daughter Amina, who are surviving the Horn of Africa's brutal famine with help from Mercy Corps.

Kenya: When the only asset you have left is hope August 14, 2011

At only 18, Saadia Farah is one of the many thousands of mothers that Mercy Corps is helping survive the drought crisis in East Africa.