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Water is essential for life, good health and economic development — yet more than one billion people lack access to clean water. Mercy Corps' work fulfills the water needs of vulnerable populations: We pipe clean drinking water to rural communities, help solve resource-based conflicts and deliver water to families during emergencies.

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: Drinking water for Sri Lanka's IDPs ›

Country: Sri Lanka

We're now supplying filtered drinking water to more than 46,000 displaced people in northern Sri Lanka — and a 100-bed hospital.

Blog Post: A million subtle shades of gray ›

For the most part, black-and-white thinking doesn’t hold true anymore. These days everything is focused or diffused through countless prisms of culture, society, history, individuality and situation.

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: Questions for Holden Basch ›

Country: Pakistan

This morning I talked with Holden Basch, who is leading our response to the Pakistan displacement crisis.

Blog Post: Help families get clean water ›

More than 1.3 billion people around the world don't have clean water to drink. How long do you have to walk to get a glass of water?

Blog Post: IDP crisis worsens by the day ›

Country: Pakistan

The news coming in is not good. Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) are still pouring out of parts of northern Pakistan where fighting is continuing between Taliban militants and military forces.

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.

Video: Nineteen: Hasanuddin, Water Seller ›

Country: Indonesia

Hasanuddin, 44, operates a small food stall and sells water in an illegal settlement under a toll road in Jakarta.

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.

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