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In nearly every country, there are groups that suffer discrimination, displacement and poverty solely because of their ethnicity, beliefs, language or social class. Their path out of poverty is especially challenging. Mercy Corps helps them to be heard and recognized so they can exchange oppression for opportunity.

Blog Post: Exploring Jakarta's hidden city ›

Country: Indonesia

Today we brought more than a dozen Mercy Corps staff to Penjaringan, Jakarta's biggest slum — to continue the writing and photography training we began yesterday.

Blog Post: The 2009 Climate Conference: poverty reduction and human rights implications ›

The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is a critical meeting for our planet, where the world's governments will decide the planet’s course of action to deal with climate change.

Blog Post: A fragile peace is shaken ›

Country: Tajikistan

Just a couple of weeks after celebrating the National Day of Reconciliation, tensions are rising here in Rasht; ghosts of the country's civil war seem to be more than just apparitions.

Indonesia: Biogas from Waste ›

Country: Indonesia

Mercy Corps is helping the impoverished families of Jakarta's slums through the installation of biogas facilities that convert human and other organic waste into energy that can be used for cooking and lighting.

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: Becoming Abla ›

A man does what he must to provide for his family. But in the small West African nation of Togo, it goes much deeper than that: each man is assigned a name, and judged by it.

Blog Post: Kyrgyzstan: A confluence of crisis ›

Country: Kyrgyzstan

In Kyrgyzstan, Mercy Corps recently begun a food distribution program in coordination with the World Food Program: the first such program in more than ten years in this former Soviet republic.

Recycled Life ›

Country: Indonesia

Darpi, a 56-year-old woman who’s been living in Jakarta's Penjaringan slum since the mid-1970s, is proof that things can improve.

Special Report: Nineteen: The Lives of Jakarta's Street Vendors ›

Country: Indonesia

Street vendors, hawking anything from food to medicine, dominate Jakarta's urban landscape even as they scrape by to provide for their families. Here are five of their stories.

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.

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