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	<title>Needs Arise from Another Earthquake</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/china/2326/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps' emergency team in China's Sichuan Province is delivering aid to survivors of a recent earthquake, while maintaining its programs for those displaced by May's deadly tremor.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:12:47 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Behind the Lines</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/georgia/2325/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Nearly a month after hostilities erupted that forced almost 160,000 people from their homes, thousands of Georgian families are still displaced. Mercy Corps continues to help them.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:23:13 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Hurricane-Displaced Families Face Uncertainty Upon Return</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/unitedstates/2322/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav's landfall in Louisiana, Mercy Corps is determining how best to help storm-affected families through neighborhood partners and local organizations.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:05:14 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>What Would You Take With You?</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/georgia/2320/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Imagine having just a few minutes to gather belongings from your home. What would you take? That's the reality for thousands of Georgian families.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:02:23 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Georgian Families Still Displaced</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/georgia/2308/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps is responding to the needs of Georgia's displaced people in Georgia after intense fighting between Georgian and Russian forces, as well as other groups. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:13:05 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>The World's Youngest Principal</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/china/2295/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[For Mercy Corps' Guo Xin, the day she spent distributing hygiene kits to displaced earthquake survivors will remain most memorable for the bravery of a 17-year-old school principal. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:43:56 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Food for North Korea's Families</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hungernutrition/2277/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps is taking the lead in a yearlong distribution of 100,000 metric tons of food to quell rampant hunger in North Korea.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:50:07 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Q&amp;A: Carol Ward in Myanmar</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/myanmar/2255/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[One of our top emergency responders gives her firsthand impressions of Myanmar's devastated Delta and lays out what she and her colleagues are doing to increase food security and fight malnutrition. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:27:49 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Campaigning for Iraq's Disabled</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/iraq/2232/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[NBC's Ned Colt reports the story of Tiana Tozer, a Mercy Corps staffer in the Middle East who is making a difference in the lives of disabled Iraqis — and advocating for their rights in a changing country.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:29:44 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Uncertainty for Abyei's Displaced</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/sudan/2211/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps is helping deliver humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Sudanese displaced from Abyei town, where renewed fighting has sparked fears of a resumption of Africa's bloodiest civil war.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:23:56 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Regaining Her Smile, Dispelling Fear</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/peru/2212/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Nine-year old Maria survived last August's Peru earthquake — but life in the aftermath was often nightmarish. Mercy Corps helped heal her emotional wounds.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:58:01 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Delivering Aid to Abyei's Displaced</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/emergencies/2196/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps is helping deliver humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Sudanese displaced from Abyei town, where renewed fighting has sparked fears of a resumption of Africa's bloodiest civil war.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 07:40:48 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Helping Somalis Endure Hardship</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hungernutrition/2189/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[As Somalia slides closer to famine, Mercy Corps continues to drill boreholes, build schools and offer short-term jobs in an area where few global relief agencies will tread.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 09:56:23 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Support for Earthquake Survivors</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/china/2161/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[We're on the ground assisting supporting survivors of the most violent earthquake to hit China in decades.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:34:54 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Mercy Corps Reaches Families Torn by Conflict in Congo</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/emergencies/1816/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps is helping more than 50,000 displaced people meet their most basic needs in areas of conflict-ravaged northeastern Congo near the Rwandan border.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:55:48 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Using Sports to Support Youth</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/children/2151/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[It's not the classroom, or the doctor's office, or some other site where you might expect to find traumatized children receiving supportive services. But athletic fields and playgrounds, Mercy Corps and its partners believe, can be the place where innovative — and effective — approaches to emotional recovery take flight.

The Moving Forward initiative, a collaborative endeavor between Mercy Corps, NIKE and CARE aims to help youth emerge from the physical and emotional rubble of emergencies by stepping onto the soccer pitches, volleyball courts and dance halls of their recovering communities. The approach capitalizes on the capacity of coaches and teachers to use sport- and game-based methodologies to help youth recover from the trauma they experience during and after disasters.

As part of a pilot project initiated by Mercy Corps in response to the coastal earthquake in Peru last August, two dozen coaches and teachers were trained as mentors to work with kids in the most affected areas. Using sports like soccer, volleyball and dance, these mentors helped more than 300 kids cope with the psychosocial stress that follows losing homes and schools and living in crowded shelters.  

Twice a week, youth joined their mentors in community play areas to take part in soccer and volleyball matches and dance instruction to build their self-esteem, trust in others, teamwork and resiliency. Each mentor was equipped with a NIKE-outfitted sport bag containing all the tools of the sport-mentor trade: soccer balls, volleyballs, practice vests, cones, rope and so on.

The experience and tools developed will help the Moving Forward initiative develop a one-of-a-kind toolkit to help child-service professionals engage youth in sports and games after natural and manmade disasters strike. The toolkit will be refined by all of the partners as we learn more about how to best use sports and games to promote kids' psychosocial recovery.

Food, water and shelter are essential to disaster recovery. But the power of sports can't be overlooked in helping youth recover their optimism and hope.
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	<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 10:16:53 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Rising food prices impact families worldwide</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/emergencies/2128/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Surging food prices often hit those who can afford it the least &amp;mdash; the very people who Mercy Corps supports in our programs around the world.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:23:07 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Mercy Corps Calls for Greater Response to Dire Humanitarian Situation in Iraq</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/emergencies/2106/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps has called for increased attention and resources to address the humanitarian situation in war-torn Iraq and neighboring countries.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:24:34 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Solutions for Sudan</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/sudan/2101/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Mercy Corps supporters, we continue to help the hardworking people of Sudan survive — and even envision brighter times ahead. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:24:17 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Emergency Aid to Southern Iraq</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/emergencies/2098/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps is providing water, medical supplies and other forms of emergency assistance to the war-weary southern Iraqi provinces of Basra, Maysan and Wassit.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:04:33 -0700</pubDate>
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