Women & Gender
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Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps
Ensuring equity between women and men is the key to unleashing the full potential of communities to transform their lives. Mercy Corps addresses the unmet needs of women and girls in places where they have been marginalized and disempowered, while recognizing that it is vital to involve men and boys in the process of helping women and girls claim their equal place.
Throughout our programs, we consider the needs of both genders and build on the courage and resourcefulness of women to help them improve their families and communities.
All stories about Women & Gender
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Afghanistan: Asian Fashion for Kabul Women May 21, 2004
Name: Nadjia ShujaeeAge: 33 yearsLocation: Bagh-E-Zanana Women’s Market, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Afghanistan: Afghan Woman Selling to Women May 21, 2004
Name: Aziza RajabiAge: 45 yearsLocation: Bagh-E-Zanana Women’s Market, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Afghanistan: Hatching a New Business May 21, 2004
Name: Fawzia Mohammad HazanAge: 35Location: District 7, Kabul (Afghanistan) Over the din of hundreds of cheeping little chicks, Fawzia explains the business plan for her newly launched chick farm.
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Afghanistan: A Beauty Shop of Her Own May 21, 2004
Name: Lailuma Aslam ZadaAge: 30 yearsLocation: Bagh-E-Zanana, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Afghanistan: A Window Into Northern Afghanistan May 11, 2004
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Afghanistan: Optimism is High; But Afghans Fear The Window of Opportunity is Closing November 19, 2003
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Kosovo: Ensuring the participation of women in Kosovo November 17, 2003
From November 2001 until May 2003, Mercy Corps Kosovo implemented the USAID-funded Healthy Community Initiatives (HCI).
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Afghanistan: A Journey Through a World of Mercy October 2, 2003
Afghanistan, especially northern Afghanistan, is by far the most exotic place I have ever seen.
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A Doctor's Call August 11, 2003
Agil draws back the lace curtain and looks anxiously out the window.
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Afghanistan: Curing the blindness of Afghanistan's illiteracy June 5, 2003
"He walked into my office last year in April and told me, to my surprise, that he was quitting even though his contract was not about to end," remembers Joerg Denker, Senior Program Manager for Mercy Corps in North Afghanistan.