Emergency response
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Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps
Life can change for millions of families in an instant: natural disasters can take loved ones and the outbreak of war drive families from their homes. When the unthinkable happens, Mercy Corps delivers rapid, lifesaving aid to hard-hit communities.
All stories about Emergency response
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India: Partnering for Families in Coastal India March 24, 2005
Mercy Corps is restoring livelihoods and ensuring a better, more secure future for many of the estimated 890,000 tsunami-affected residents of the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu.
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Sri Lanka: Critical Assistance to Sri Lankan Communities March 24, 2005
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Sudan: Returning, Inspired March 23, 2005
In 2005, Mercy Corps board member Linda Mason took a journey to Sudan's troubled Darfur region. During her time there, she witnessed Mercy Corps staff in action and took time to sit down with women in makeshift camps and listen to their inspiring stories.
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Indonesia: Responding to Disaster, Preparing to Rebuild March 8, 2005
On December 28, 2004, Mercy Corps’ Nigel Pont became one of the first international relief workers to reach the tsunami-decimated city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
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Pakistan: Responding to Severe Weather in Pakistan February 16, 2005
Mercy Corps is distributing emergency food and supplies in Pakistan to help people in Baluchistan, Pakistan cope with high amounts of precipitation that have led to severe snowfall in the north and flooding in the south of the province.
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India: New Growth in India February 15, 2005
If necessity is the mother of invention, then perhaps calamity is the father of community. I thought about this as I stood in the full Indian sun, witnessing a scene that I never imagined could take place.
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Indonesia: Faces on the Ground - Page 2 February 14, 2005
Harlin Suluki
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India: Children Returning to Childhood in India January 26, 2005
Pondicherry, India - In the tiny village of Kanapathichettikullum, just 15 kilometers north of Pondicherry, the sixty concrete and thatch huts that make up this community bore an unimaginable brunt.
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Indonesia: Four Stories from Banda Aceh January 4, 2005
Note: These stories were called in by Debbie Tomasowa, Mercy Corps Indonesia's Media Officer, from some of the most devastated areas of Banda Aceh
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Sri Lanka: Field Report from Sri Lanka January 3, 2005
Note: Mercy Corps Senior Communications Officer Cassandra Nelson called these details in from Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka.