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Women are the foundation of every society. Yet for many women in the world's poorest regions, life is extraordinarily difficult.

Through innovative health, agricultural, business and education programs, Mercy Corps builds on the courage and resourcefulness of women to help them realize their potential and improve their families and communities.
In a country once hostile to women working outside the home, 30-year-old Lailuma used a small Mercy Corps loan to open her own beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Turning Trash into Cash

BY ANNA CLARKSON AND ROGER O. BURKS, JR.

 With support from Mercy Corps and a local organization called Women in Self-Employment (WISE), Tafessu and her neighbors are finding a way to transform potato skins and fruit peels into fuel.

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New Skills for Asha

BY SCOTT DUBIN

 By looking at 25-year-old Asha, you could never tell that she has been through so much in her young life. But despite tragedy, Mercy Corps is helping her learn new skills to support her young family.

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The Ladies of Mercy Corps Somalia

BY JEREMY BARNICLE
Jeremy Barnicle hosts a revealing roundtable in which he quickly realized his assumptions on Somali women were wrong.

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