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.
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Pioneering Program Begins in Azerbaijan April 16, 2002
Mercy Corps has received funding from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the first Child Survival health initiative to be awarded in Azerbaijan.
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Generous action makes youth soccer team a winner April 11, 2002
The players on the Wild Green Bananas youth soccer team in West Linn, Oregon did not receive any trophies at the end of their most recent season, but don't tell this group of boys that they aren't winners.
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Afghanistan: Giving back by going back April 9, 2002
He comes from a place called Sheen Kallay, or green village, but after fours years of drought there are only small patches of green near the southern Afghanistan hometown of Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti.
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Afghanistan: A new era begins as Afghan schools reopen March 25, 2002
The first step in the long road to the revitalization of the education system in Afghanistan is being hailed as a great success, but there is a long way to go to expand the educational opportunities for the country’s 4.5 million school age children.
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Afghanistan: Commentary: Don't miss opportunity to help Afghans' education March 7, 2002
Being a refugee from Afghanistan has often gotten me attention. Since Sept. 11, the level of interest about my life and beliefs has risen exponentially. I am often asked to share my thoughts and experiences with others.
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Afghanistan: Nine-year-old boy lends a heart to help Afghans February 25, 2002
When Josh Norville, 9, of Oregon City, Oregon heard a news report about families suffering this winter in Afghanistan he decided he wanted to do something to help.
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Afghanistan: From nomad to doctor February 15, 2002
I was born to a nomadic family in Afghanistan. I did not have the opportunity to go school or Madrassa (religious school) when I was young. I was not taught how to read. No one in my family could read or write. We did not enjoy the basic right to literacy.
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Afghanistan: Mercy Corps distributes school and hospital supplies in Kabul, Afghanistan February 14, 2002
From the hands of students in Issaquah, Washington to desks of children in Kabul, Afghanistan, a Mercy Corps relief mission is helping to deliver much needed aid while also bringing people together.
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Afghanistan: Kabul area health clinics in desperate need of rehabilitation January 25, 2002
A Mercy Corps assessment team recently visited health clinics in the villages outside the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, and found health facilities lacking basic medicines and patients forced to wait on hallway floors because there were no beds.
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Kyrgyzstan: Pride in Hard Work November 30, 2001
Alla Kulbeda is the director of the Krasnaya Rechka (Red River) Special Boarding School in northern Kyrgyzstan. The boarding school raises and educates orphans with "oligophrenia" - a disease that impairs a person's ability to think.