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Improving access to health care for rural Guatemalans by financing a network of community-run village pharmacies.
Fighting malnutrition in Indonesia's slums with small businesses that prepare and sell healthy meals from food cart.
Helping restore earthquake-stricken local economies in Haiti through a mobile banking solution that uses mobile phones.
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Read the case study ▸At Mercy Corps, we call these social innovations. We look at our organization as a culture of creative solutions designed to confront tough challenges. And we consider every team member a social entrepreneur.
Mercy Corps partners with creative thinkers from the private and public sectors to come up with innovative approaches. We take responsible risks, champion new ideas and scale up those that perform best. Many of our most dynamic ideas and most effective approaches come from the people we serve.
“(Mercy Corps) insist(s) on serving up smart, bold solutions to seemingly intractable problems ... supporting seeds of change in the wake of turmoil and tragedy.”
— Fast Company Magazine
“One pilot project that is smashing stereotypes is a deal between the private charity Mercy Corps, USAID and Wal-Mart to help small farming co-ops in Guatemala...”
— The Los Angeles Times
“Mercy Corps couldn’t think of anything traditional that a nongovernmental group could do about (child malnutrition in Indonesia). So it did something very untraditional: it started a healthy street food business ... that has since spun off into a for-profit company.”
— Tina Rosenberg, The New York Times
