The long road from impoverished village to chaotic city is fraught with difficulties for Chinese migrants. Mercy Corps helps them change challenges into opportunities.
Perfect Harmony Family
The 500 pounds of homemade noodles that Guo Guifen sells each market day keep local cook-pots full - and have won her family the village's top honor.
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Planting Day
The day a garden is established is one of happiness and hope for families - especially with the knowledge that they can remain at home and tend it through harvest.
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Nourishing Roots
Zheng Hong, a former professor of micropaleontology, has moved out from behind the microscope to focus on one of China's biggest social issues: migrant youth.
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Finding Hope on the Side of the Road
One day as Guo Peiling was rummaging around the neighborhood for his recycling business, he found a school for his youngest daughter.
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Dandelion Seeds
For many years Hu Yan and her brother floated from city to city with their mother, a migrant worker. Today, they have settled in a place where they're flourishing.
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China: The Disparity of Change
For hundreds of millions of rural citizens and migrant workers, China's economic miracle seems like a distant dream. Mercy Corps is helping these families draw closer to their hopes. |
By Roger O. Burks, Jr., September 21, 2007
The Liangshan Yi are an ethnic group at risk; faced with the challenges of a Chinese economy that seems to be leaving them behind, they need the optimism, ingenuity and action of their youth more than ever.
By Roger O. Burks, Jr., September 21, 2007
Professor Hou Yuangao, alongside Mercy Corps, is helping to save and preserve his own endangered ethnic group.
By Roger O. Burks, Jr., September 21, 2007
The young women of Project GLOW display remarkable grace and a zest for life amid the hardships of life in the Liangshan Yi villages.
Over the last five years, more than 89% of resources allocated directly to programs.