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War tears at every fiber of society, but conflict doesn't have to be violent to harm communities. Mercy Corps works to not only help families rebuild after the destruction of war, but also manage friction points and find solutions so shots are never fired.

Blog Post: Congo's "conflict charcoal" ›

Country: DR Congo

Most people have heard of conflict or "blood" diamonds, but fewer may be aware of conflict charcoal — a trade controlled by one of Congo's long-standing rebel groups.

Blog Post: Providing clean water to Sri Lanka's displaced ›

Country: Sri Lanka

Hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans are still living in densely populated camps following last month's end to the island's 26-year civil war.

Blog Post: Updates from Pakistan ›

Country: Pakistan

Our team in Pakistan continues to distribute $45 vouchers for families living in schools, public buildings and makeshift camps to buy what they need.

Blog Post: From Kansas to Cairo ›

Country: Iraq

Listening to President Obama's speech in Cairo yesterday, I was struck by how many themes resonated with what Mercy Corps is doing in the Middle East.

Blog Post: The human story of suffering is emerging from Pakistan... ›

Country: Pakistan

The human story of suffering is slowly emerging from the stories collected from hundreds of displaced people.

Blog Post: IDP crisis worsens by the day ›

Country: Pakistan

The news coming in is not good. Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) are still pouring out of parts of northern Pakistan where fighting is continuing between Taliban militants and military forces.

Sri Lanka's displaced grows to 265,000 ›

Country: Sri Lanka

In the country's north, our team is taking steps to help families uprooted to the Vavuniya district, home to the highest concentration of displacement camps.

Blog Post: Photo of the Day ›

Country: Uganda

Maybe it’s a five-page article in the New York Times or a three-minute clip on CNN. But sometimes, all it takes to remember why we’re doing this is a single photograph.

Helping Those With Nowhere Else to Go ›

Country: DR Congo

We're providing clean drinking water to tens of thousands of displaced Congolese — including 34-year-old Odette Bihoyoki, whose story reveals the horrors of eastern Congo's ongoing war.

Exodus of IDPs overwhelms northern Sri Lanka ›

Country: Sri Lanka

Mercy Corps is marshaling a humanitarian response to the growing crisis in northern Sri Lanka, where more than 90,000 people have fled fighting between Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan army in the past week.

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Even in the world’s most violent places, there is always room for hope. Since the late 1990s, Mercy Corps has implemented more than 70 peace-building programs in 20 war-torn countries.

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