For a South Sudanese refugee, a place to put down roots
Soon after Grace learned to walk, she learned to flee. Now 29 years old, she has fled to Uganda two separate times because of conflict in her home ...
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The GIRL-H Storybook
Our Storybook: Voices of Resilience and Change From 2021 to 2024, GIRL-H has reached over 20,000 adolescents across Uganda’s Karamoja region ...
I lost everything when my home was bombed. So I built a school for refugees.
In Syria, I never worked in education. I was in the cattle and cow trade, and we had agricultural land: olives, pistachios, almonds, and grapes. Our ...
Showing Up for Digital Peace
Download the full report ▸ The Reducing Online Conflict Community (ROCC) addresses these challenges by catalyzing collaboration and generating ...
Starving children: Beyond the photos
Editor's note: This article was originally published April 14, 2017; it was updated February 16, 2018, to reflect the latest information. The road to ...
What you want to know about the Sahel hunger crisis
The hunger crisis in the Sahel is not an immediate emergency that gets splashed across the evening news. Instead, the tragic circumstances of drought ...
"I was working Monday to Monday and still it wasn't enough": Becoming a Venezuelan refugee
Flour and water were all they had left for dinner. That’s the night Jose knew his family of five had to leave. Jose and his wife Ana Maria had one ...
Stories from the Field: Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of Mercy Corps’ biggest and most challenging programs. Eastern Congo has been (and still is) home to as many ...
How we're helping families in Haiti's rural villages
I arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday of this week, just ahead of Tomas, the tropical storm that just passed through Haiti today. Yesterday, we ...