After a year of uncertainty, what’s next is up to all of us

Stories of impact from 2025 show how we’re working, innovating, and partnering to make a difference against all odds.

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Anarkan mambetova (right) received a loan from kompanion, the financial organization that mercy corps founded in kyrgyzstan nearly a decade ago. her success shows how microfinancing can lift families out of poverty by helping them build sustainable businesses. photo: emily youatt/mercy corps
August 07, 2013
A new life starts with a small loan
From barely being able to feed her family to sending her kids to college, Anarkan Mambetova's story is one of many successes we're seeing after building Kyrgyzstan's microfinance services for the last decade.
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Portrait of inas, mercy corps field staff in libya
June 17, 2013
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.
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Coastline in the maluku islands with small boats lining the shore
June 05, 2013
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.
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A farmer in indonesia
May 17, 2013
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.
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Celeste da silva and her three children
May 08, 2013
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.
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Front entry at zaatari refugee camp
April 19, 2013
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?
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