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Imagine having just minutes to take what you could from your home before fleeing from disaster or war. This is the reality for millions of displaced families, who languish in overcrowded camps or lonely city streets with no idea when — or if — they can return home. Mercy Corps helps these families with basic supplies and shelter, temporary jobs, makeshift classrooms and preparation for a hoped-for return.

Blog Post: Update on kids' psychosocial program ›

Country: Pakistan

We've enrolled nearly 1,400 displaced children in Pakistan in our program to relieve their stress by offering sports and games.

Fleeing Home ›

Country: Pakistan

Sadja's family has been living in an overcrowded high school for almost two months. She fled her home with nothing.

Blog Post: Drinking water for Sri Lanka's IDPs ›

Country: Sri Lanka

We're now supplying filtered drinking water to more than 46,000 displaced people in northern Sri Lanka — and a 100-bed hospital.

Helping Kids Cope ›

Country: Pakistan

Life has been anything but routine for Salman since his family was displaced from their home in early May. Activity kits and organized sports are helping restore a sense of normalcy.

Blog Post: My meeting with Vice President Biden ›

Country: Iraq

Last Friday, I participated in a small roundtable discussion with Vice President Biden, General Odierno, two ambassadors and a Sheikh to discuss reconciliation in Iraq.

Blog Post: Tools for life ›

Country: Colombia

I teach weekly yoga classes to fifth graders at a school in Bogota's Ciudad Bolivar, where many youth I teach have been forcibly displaced by Colombia's ongoing conflict.

Blog Post: Ned Lamont calls out Mercy Corps' work on The Huffington Post ›

Country: Iraq
Ned Lamont — former Democratic Senate candidate in Connecticut and Mercy Corps board member — discusses the "Independence Day" aspects of U.S. troops pulling out of Iraqi cities.

More Than Run-of-the-Mill Progress ›

Country: Kosovo

Prospects for Kosovo’s future stability and prosperity rest in returning and re-integrating internally displaced people and refugee populations to their native homes.

Blog Post: Connecting Sudan's displaced ›

Country: Sudan

War-torn communities are finding a voice in the most unlikely of places, thanks to new Information and Communication Technology across southern Sudan and the Three Areas.

Blog Post: A million subtle shades of gray ›

For the most part, black-and-white thinking doesn’t hold true anymore. These days everything is focused or diffused through countless prisms of culture, society, history, individuality and situation.

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