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Kenyan woman cooking outside.

When aid disappears: The human cost of foreign aid cuts

April 01, 2025

What happens when the emergency aid to communities facing hunger, war, extreme weather, and disaster abruptly stops?

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Portrait of inas, mercy corps field staff in libya

Meet our field staff: Inas

Once a refugee herself, Inas knows firsthand the challenges in post-revolution Libya. That's why she's determined to empower women to take an active role in shaping their nation’s future.

Coastline in the maluku islands with small boats lining the shore

Fighting poverty in the Spice Islands

Amid the tropical beauty of Indonesia's Maluku islands some families are living on less than 36 cents a day. We're helping spice farmers turn the abundance all around them into profit.

A farmer in indonesia

Agri-Fin Mobile program provides big benefits on small phones

How Mercy Corps and local partners are bundling services on a unique mobile platform to help smallholder farmers boost their harvests and incomes.

Celeste da silva and her three children

Solar energy lights the way for rural families

Celeste da Silva and her husband Clementino grinned broadly as they held up the recent addition to their modest tin-roofed home. The source of their contentment? A simple solar light.

Front entry at zaatari refugee camp

Life in Zaatari: An inside look

Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp is filled with uniform rows of tent upon tent now housing an estimated 140,000 Syrians. What is it like there for families who don't know when they can return home?

Haiti: much of haiti's natural landscape has been degraded from decades of deforestation and poor environmental practices. we're working with farmers to restore the land, building rock walls and planting trees to prevent erosion and protect communities from floods. photo: lloyd smith/agwm builders int'l for mercy corps

10 stunning landscape photos from the world’s toughest places

We work in some of the toughest places in the world, but their incredible settings are a reminder of what lies beyond poverty, conflict and disaster.