Children & Youth
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Photo: Sean Sheridan for Mercy Corps
Teaching the next generation and keeping them healthy are essential to tomorrow's strong, vibrant societies. Mercy Corps works with communities to shelter and nurture children and youth through innovative education, sports and job training programs.
Through the power of sports, community service and vocational training, we empower young people to make smart life choices and find a productive place in the changing global economy.
Our signature Comfort for Kids program focuses on helping children process trauma after natural disasters and conflict. See our expert's recommendations for how parents and caregivers can help children through times of crisis ▸
All stories about Children & Youth
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Afghanistan: One Lucky Woman In Hazarjuft September 16, 2002
Bakhtawar is sitting on a bed in the female in-patient ward of Hazarjuft Hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Her name means "lucky woman" but she has been anything but lucky when it comes to preganancy and health.
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United States: Bringing Comfort To Kids One Year Later September 11, 2002
NEW YORK, NY - In a Hunter College classroom on New York's Upper East Side a Mercy Corps Comfort For Kids Program training session begins.
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Reaching the Farthest Child September 4, 2002
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United States: Remembering September 11, 2001 August 30, 2002
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Kosovo: A mother and child of mercy August 28, 2002
Tina is Albanian. She met her Albanian Kosovar husband Ishmet during her nursing training in Albania and they moved back to his family home in Istog in northern Kosovo. It was a painful time for Tina.
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Energizing Serbian Communities August 1, 2002
It is easy to understand their skepticism. After years of false promises followed by years of a regime that largely forgot them, the communities in the Sandzak region of Serbia have seen their share of disappointments and hopes left unfulfilled.
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Afghanistan: Rebuilding Opportunity July 11, 2002
It was supposed to be 18 kilometers of life, flowing through rural villages and farms as steady as a summer breeze. It would be a welcome elixir that would keep families and livestock healthy, while allowing an impoverished region to claw its way to economic prosperity.
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Afghanistan: Master Trainers July 11, 2002
On the inhospitable border, nicknamed "No Man's Land", between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a husband and wife team is working to improve the lives of Afghan refugee families flowing to and from Pakistan. Parveen and Syed Safdar are Master Trainers for Mercy Corps.
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Food for Thought June 18, 2002
Earlier this year, 11-year-old Ibrahim was on the verge of dropping out of the fourth grade. "We were worried," said Alamin Abdirahman, the director of Shitel Elementary School in Shitel, Eritea. "He is a clever student."
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Afghanistan: A Class Project Worthy of High Marks June 11, 2002
This is one class assignment that the students in Mr. McElroy's third-grade class at Alameda Elementary School in Portland, Oregon would not mind repeating.