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Overcrowded and environmentally stressed, today's megacities are home to millions who live in extreme poverty. Mercy Corps works to bring education, health and economic opportunity to families who have fallen through the cracks.

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: Storytelling 101 ›

Country: Indonesia

After enduring more than 20 hours of flights to reach Jakarta, we taught a full day's worth of classes on writing and photography to 15 staff at the Mercy Corps office here.

Addressing the Impact of Climate Change in Indonesian Slums ›

Country: Indonesia

Mercy Corps, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI) today announced a partnership to address the potentially dire effects that climate change will have on the poorest people in Indonesia’s cities.

Blog Post: A tale of nights and days in New Orleans ›

Country: United States

On a recent trip, staffer Laus Mwakalebela learned that there’s nothing wrong with experiencing New Orleans by night, but it’s essential to come back by day and help rebuild the city's future.

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: Building children's confidence through sport ›

Country: Colombia

Mercy Corps Colombia manages an innovative program which aims to both eliminate and mitigate the effects of some of the worst forms of child labor through sports activities.

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.

Blog Post: Dishing out healthy street food ›

Country: Indonesia

The Healthy Street Foods Project trains and mentors local entrepreneurs to sell healthy food to children in order to both reduce malnutrition and address poverty and unemployment.

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.

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Mercy Corps strives to enhance the positive contributions urbanization offers while mitigating negative impacts on basic needs, human rights and society. We believe the best way to catalyze change within urban environments is to help city dwellers advocate for their needs and to improve how government, community organizations and the private sector respond.

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