Health

Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps

Our work to build healthy communities, families and individuals is at the heart of Mercy Corps' vision for social change. By partnering with a range of partners, from village health committees to government agencies, we help build the means to improve maternal, newborn and child health, ensure proper nutrition and combat infectious diseases.

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Kyrgyzstan: Toilets and community capacity development April 5, 2010

I arrived on a typical school day to what seemed an empty school. That was because everyone was in the bathroom!
Indonesia: Kedai Balitaku provides employment March 31, 2010

Mrs. Anik joined Kedai Balitaku Aceh — Mercy Corps' Child Nutrition Program that helps vendors sell healthy foods to children — in December 2009.
Indonesia: Helping the baby get better March 25, 2010

My name is Muhammad Rizal. I’m working with Mercy Corps as the Marketing Officer for a nutrition program called Kedai Balitaku in Aceh Province, Indonesia.
Playing earthquake while the ground rumbles and tempers flare March 15, 2010

The Educacion Popular en Salud (or EPES, Mercy Corps' local partner in Chile) Center here — with its wooden gazebo and jungle gym — is an oasis of respite from the surrounding catastrophe, two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Concepción, Hualpén, Talcahuano and neighboring c
Spring of hope: EPES provides emergency water to earthquake survivors March 10, 2010
Haiti: Training to help children heal — a healing process in itself March 10, 2010

I’m Fabiola, a part of Mercy Corps Haiti’s staff of nationals, hired as the communication officer about three weeks ago. Needless to say, keeping up with Mercy Corps’ energy and momentum has been challenging but mostly fun and almost always rewarding.
In Chile, hard work and messages of hope March 9, 2010

Hector Reyes —a staff member for Educacion Popular en Salud (EPES), Mercy Corps' local partner here in Chile — and I returned from the earthquake-shattered city of Concepción late last night.
Haiti: Video: Helping Haiti's children laugh, play and sing again February 19, 2010

Today I visited a daycare where Mercy Corps' Comfort for Kids program is helping dozens of young earthquake survivors to celebrate their lives and friends again. Here's a video I took that shows just how amazing the spirit of these games and this music really is.
Haiti: Emergency food aid delivery to Port-au-Prince's General Hospital (8 photos) January 21, 2010

Today we delivered three days' worth of high-protein biscuits to 300 patients and their family members.
Indonesia: I am here, Boss December 23, 2009

Her name is Marhamah, but people call her May. She is not yet 32 years old and already has three children. Her youngest child is seven-month-old girl who is breastfeeding.