Pakistan
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Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps
Our strategy
Address the urgent issues of economic development, public health service delivery, and effective relief and recovery from natural disasters and conflict.
The context
Economic growth in Pakistan is constrained by the ongoing regional instability and conflict, which contributes to domestic instability and violence in much of the country. Rates of tuberculosis (TB), maternal and child mortality, and malnutrition are some of the highest in south Asia. Better governance remains a critical need for equitable development.
Our work
- Emergency response: Provided basic supplies and rehabilitated damaged water and sanitation systems after massive monsoon flooding in 2010 and 2011
- Agriculture & Food: Helping dairy farmers increase their incomes by keeping their animals healthy
- Health: Increasing access to TB treatment; training health workers and midwives to improve maternal childbirth and newborn health
- Economic opportunity: Connecting traders with global markets through internet and mobile technologies
All stories about Pakistan
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Pakistan: Shifting from Relief to Recovery March 21, 2006
Mercy Corps aid workers are winding down the agency's extensive shelter-building effort as recovery takes center stage in the mountainside villages in northern Pakistan, where residents struggle to recover from October's 7.6-magnitude earthquake.
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Pakistan: Blankets Aid Wintertime Survival March 13, 2006
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Pakistan: My Journey to Pakistan February 10, 2006
At the beginning of January, Mercy Corps program officer Jackie Lee traveled from her Hong Kong home to Pakistan to get a firsthand look at our efforts to help earthquake survivors recover from the devastation.
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Pakistan: A Beautiful Mind January 9, 2006
On my last day in Mansehra, Jill, our community revitalization program officer, took me to do something fun.
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Pakistan: Life in a Nutshell January 8, 2006
I learned that I would be on a helicopter for today’s distribution shortly after I arrived at the Mansehra guesthouse. Josh arranged all the heli distributions with the UN Humanitarian Air Service, and he got me a seat on this one.
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Pakistan: When There's a Will, There's a Way January 7, 2006
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Pakistan: Distribution Day January 6, 2006
Yesterday, my first day in Pakistan, was spent at a UN coordination meeting in Islamabad. Today I'm helping our field teams deliver stoves and blankets and visiting villages where we're paying people to salvage whatever materials they can from earthquake-toppled homes.
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Pakistan: Winter in a Homemade Shelter December 15, 2005
Wali Khan is smiling now.
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Pakistan: Supplying Reopened Schools in Pakistan November 11, 2005
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Pakistan: Blanket Campaign Warms Survivors November 9, 2005
In the days following the Pakistan earthquake, Richard Berger couldn't escape the intensifying humanitarian crisis on the other side of the world. Each day, the ominous news flashes persisted. "Not enough tents." "Hundreds of thousands need assistance."