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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: Crisis in Pakistan: May 12 update ›

Country: Pakistan

An update from our emergency response team in Pakistan.

Christine: There for Sichuan's Survivors ›

Country: China

Caring staff like Christine Fu define our mission. We don't just respond to emergencies, we stay as long as we're needed — and often become part of the community.

Blankets, mosquito nets rushed to Pakistan families ›

Country: Pakistan

Mercy Corps is rushing two truckloads of aid materials — including mosquito nets, soap and blankets — to more than 1,000 families displaced by fighting in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

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.

Wellspring of Progress ›

Country: Somalia

For most of the past seven years, Farhiyo Hussein spent much of her day walking as far as six kilometers to collect free or cheap water. Then Mercy Corps constructed a reservoir.

Life, Interrupted ›

Country: Central African Republic

We're assisting Luc Mbarte and more than 400 other vulnerable families in a troubled area of Central African Republic through the Gates Foundation-funded Global Food Crisis Response Program.

Peace Through Forgiveness ›

Country: Uganda

In a modest straw-thatched hut in northern Uganda's Pader district, lives one woman whose work — and story — represent great hopes for peace.

Blog Post: C'est Le Depart ›

Country: DR Congo

Today, I am leaving Goma to go back home — more than 35 hours of flights and layovers on my way back to Portland, and my family. And, over the course of the morning, I have heard one phrase over and over: "C'est le depart?"

Blog Post: History's Traffic Jam ›

Country: DR Congo

This afternoon, on the way back to the office from Mugunga II Camp, our team was caught in massive gridlock almost as soon as we hit Goma's city limits. As we inched forward, we all wondered what could be causing the snarl.

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