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A Recipe for Healthy Kids ›

Topics: Hunger

Mercy Corps is ensuring 50,000 kindergarteners and boarding-school students throughout southern Kyrgyzstan receive healthy meals.

Seedlings of Change ›

Topics: Microfinance, Agriculture

Mercy Corps and its microfinance institution, Kompanion, are helping household apple farmers in two Kyrgyz villages.

Storing Up Value ›

Topics: Microfinance, Economic Development

Apples may be a fall fruit, but growers here think of them as a winter moneymaker.

Selling the Harvest ›

Topics: Microfinance, Economic Development

Mariam Jeenalieve has spent the last several days plucking, grading and sorting these apples, then placing them into wooden crates. Now comes the real challenge: attracting a buyer.

Learning to Grow ›

Topics: Economic Development

It's a morning that feels perfect for plucking apples, and a tree in Murat Toguzbaev's backyard is sagging with dozens of apples just ripe for the picking.

A New Breed of Development ›

Topics: Economic Development

A new spirit of cooperation is catching on in southern Kyrgyzstan, where one of seven new regional economic development councils is getting behind a local vet's plan to raise incomes for household ranchers.

Tools for Sustainable Change ›

Topics: Peaceful Change, Women's Empowerment

Repairing a footbridge and initiating a community-sanitation program with Mercy Corps’ help gives one Kyrgyz woman – and her community – the capacity and courage to lead.

The Pearl of Kyrgyzstan ›

Topics: Children, Education

The village of Ornok sits on the touristy northern shores of Lake Issyk Kul, the so-called "The Pearl of Kyrgyzstan."

Global Food for Education ›

Topics: Children, Education, Hunger

Mercy Corps receives funds from USDA to mobilize and strengthen community involvement in education, and improve access to education for children in Kyrgyzstan.

The Determined Man of Kurbuu ›

Topics: Education

In his later years in life, Abdysh Asaev is working tirelessly to help the children in his beloved village to learn and prosper.

Kyrgyzstan Facts

  • Population (2008): 5.3 million
  • Size: slightly smaller than South Dakota
  • Human Development Index rank: 122 (out of 179)
  • Mercy Corps has worked there since 1994
  • Primary work: Feeding schoolchildren, establishing youth mentorship programs, providing loans and market assistance to household apple farmers
  • Year of independence: 1991
  • Average yearly income: $2,000
  • Unemployment rate: 18 percent
  • Percentage of workforce in agriculture: 55
  • Number of loans disbursed by Kompanion microfinance bank: 102,000+ (Mixmarket.org)

Program Details

Mercy Corps programs in Kyrgyzstan invest in the country's development by providing financial services and business advice, improving education and vocational opportunities for youth, and establishing a framework for equitable and broad-based economic progress.

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