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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Indonesia: When Mothers Speak, Milk Prices Come Down - And So Does a Government November 7, 2002
Traditionally, women in Indonesia are often not involved in decision making, even over everyday household and community issues. But in 1998, small groups of Indonesian women initiated protests that helped to change the history of the world's fifth most populous nation.
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Afghanistan: Signs of Hope in Afghanistan October 31, 2002
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Afghanistan: Kabul: A City on the Move October 24, 2002
Going about her daily business in the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, Anita Anastacio sees a city that is far different than the one she first encountered five years ago.
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Afghanistan: Fighting Refugee Drug Abuse in Pakistan October 7, 2002
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A Family's Hope for Good Health October 3, 2002
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Afghanistan: CHWs: A Foundation for Healthier Afghan Communities October 1, 2002
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Lebanon: New Products, New Life September 23, 2002
Iktimal el Shaweesh lives with her family of 17 in a two-story, seven-room house in southern Lebanon. She married her husband Khaled, 15 years her senior and a widower with 5 kids, in order not to remain single. They have five kids of their own: three daughters and two sons.
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Afghanistan: One Lucky Woman In Hazarjuft September 16, 2002
Bakhtawar is sitting on a bed in the female in-patient ward of Hazarjuft Hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Her name means "lucky woman" but she has been anything but lucky when it comes to preganancy and health.
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Reaching the Farthest Child September 4, 2002
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Kosovo: A mother and child of mercy August 28, 2002
Tina is Albanian. She met her Albanian Kosovar husband Ishmet during her nursing training in Albania and they moved back to his family home in Istog in northern Kosovo. It was a painful time for Tina.