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Blog Post Posted June 5, 2009, 4:18 pm by Joy Portella

Mercy Corps' Africa programs highlighted in Seattle Times

On the evening of Thursday, June 5, Mercy Corps Regional Program Directors Matthew Lovick and Phil Oldham gave a briefing on our work in ten countries in Africa. Donors and friends were treated to a sneak peak into the difficult, sometimes frustrating, sometimes uplifting work of improving people's lives in some of the world's most insecure countries — places like Somalia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Seattle Times journalist Sandi Doughton documented the briefing on the "Business of Giving" blog.

I encourage you to read and learn!

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