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Blog Post: Response team begins distributing cash vouchers ›

Topics: Displacement, Emergencies

Today our team in Mardan began distributing cash vouchers to families affected by the violence in Pakistan. The vouchers are redeemable for a $45 check that can be cashed at numerous local banks.

Blog Post: Emergency response team leader arrives Wednesday ›

Topics: Emergencies

Holden Basch arrives in Islamabad tomorrow from Afghanistan to take the reins of the 11-person emergency response team we've assembled in Pakistan.

Photo Essay: Delivering aid to families in Pakistan ›

Topics: Emergencies, Displacement

Mercy Corps field teams distributed 808 emergency supply kits in one day to families recently displaced from fighting in the Swat valley.

Blog Post: Crisis in Pakistan: May 12 update ›

Topics: Emergencies, Displacement

An update from our emergency response team in Pakistan.

Blankets, mosquito nets rushed to Pakistan families ›

Topics: Displacement, Emergencies

Mercy Corps is rushing two truckloads of aid materials — including mosquito nets, soap and blankets — to more than 1,000 families displaced by fighting in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

Mercy Corps responds to 'massive displacement' in Pakistan ›

Topics: Emergencies

Mercy Corps is dispatching a team to assist some of the estimated 500,000 Pakistanis who are fleeing their homes as a result of intensifying conflict between government forces and Taliban militants.

Sewing's Rising Star ›

Topics: Women's Empowerment, Economic Development

Mehnaz Akhtar is easing the burden on her 11-member family one thread at a time.

Babies, Full and Contented ›

Topics: Children, Food/Nutrition, Health, Hunger, Women's Empowerment

Moms in Pakistan are getting some much-needed nutritional advice, with happier, healthier children as a result.

Strengthening Local Health Systems ›

Topics: Health

In Pakistan, our tuberculosis campaign uses a comprehensive approach that’s restoring thousands of people to good health.

Sadiqa's Story ›

Topics: Health

It was about a year ago when Sadiqa got a cough that wouldn't go away. The widowed mother of five, was stricken with tuberculosis, and sought treatment at a regional health clinic established by Mercy Corps.

Pakistan Facts

  • Population (2008): 173 million
  • Size: twice as big as California
  • Human Development Index rank: 139 (out of 179)
  • Mercy Corps has worked here since 1986
  • Primary work: Combating tuberculosis with education and treatment, supporting Afghan refugees with vocational and marketing training, improving maternal and newborn health
  • Number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan: 2 million (UN Refugee Agency)
  • Literacy rate: 49.9%
  • Estimated # of new TB cases each year: 280,000+ (USAID)
  • Civilians displaced due to airstrikes: 200,000+ (WHO/UNICEF)

Program Details

Mercy Corps In Pakistan: Better health, public facilities and work opportunities revitalize communities.

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