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Navigating Change in the Delta

A little more than seven months after the storm, Mercy Corps is transitioning from humanitarian relief to a longer term recovery effort in Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta. Jeremy Barnicle recently spent a week in the region to monitor progress and report back...

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Bold Woman Makes a Difference

When the cyclone hit, Mra Sabai Nyun was taking a break from a 30-year career in public service — but right away she decided that she had something to offer the devastated region.

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A Welcome Harvest

It would be hard to overstate the importance of rice to the people of Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta: it is the staple food, cash crop and livelihood of this entire region.

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Taking Charge of the Recovery

In Jeremy Barnicle's four years at Mercy Corps, he often heard colleagues talk about "community mobilization" as something central to our approach in the field, but never really understood it — until Kan Bet.

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Better School Lunches - No, Really

Throughout much of Mongolia, school meals are the only nutrition that students receive. Mercy Corps helped make them more nutritious.

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Preserving Nomadic Life

In the sometimes-splendid isolation of the Gobi, Tumurchuluun knows that herding is good work, important work. And Mercy Corps knows that, too.

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Slideshow: Faces of the Gobi

Here are some of the people and landscapes we encountered on a two-week, 1,600 mile journey over Mongolia's deserts, mountains and steppes.

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Miracle Growth

This is a story about how political transformation, tourism and tomatoes created an oasis in the southernmost reaches of the Gobi. It begins with a man named Poli.

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Shepherding Tradition

Here in a nomad camp in Mongolia's southernmost province, the Master Herder is dressed in a black velvet jacket, grey corduroy pants and blue hiking boots.

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Boundless Horizons

A couple dozen miles outside of Mongolia's capital of Ulaanbaatar, the paved road ended and gave way to the Gobi Desert. A few dozen miles after...

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