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Life can change for millions of families in an instant: natural disasters can take loved ones and the outbreak of war drive families from their homes. When the unthinkable happens, Mercy Corps delivers rapid, lifesaving aid to hard-hit communities.

Helping Myanmar, One Year After the Storm ›

Country: Myanmar

It was just over one year ago — on May 2, 2008 — that Cyclone Nargis made landfall along Myanmar’s coast. Mercy Corps has helped residents in the hard-hit Laputta District rebuild.

Blog Post: Burmese farmers caught in poverty trap ›

Country: Myanmar

Farming communities in Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta have always followed a cycle of debt. Each year, wealthy land owners would lend farmers money, tools and cattle needed to till the soil.

Blog Post: Emergency response team leader arrives Wednesday ›

Country: Pakistan

Holden Basch arrives in Islamabad tomorrow from Afghanistan to take the reins of the 11-person emergency response team we've assembled in Pakistan.

Photo Essay: Delivering aid to families in Pakistan ›

Country: Pakistan

Mercy Corps field teams distributed 808 emergency supply kits in one day to families recently displaced from fighting in the Swat valley.

Blog Post: Crisis in Pakistan: May 12 update ›

Country: Pakistan

An update from our emergency response team in Pakistan.

Christine: There for Sichuan's Survivors ›

Country: China

Caring staff like Christine Fu define our mission. We don't just respond to emergencies, we stay as long as we're needed — and often become part of the community.

Blankets, mosquito nets rushed to Pakistan families ›

Country: Pakistan

Mercy Corps is rushing two truckloads of aid materials — including mosquito nets, soap and blankets — to more than 1,000 families displaced by fighting in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

Mercy Corps responds to 'massive displacement' in Pakistan ›

Country: Pakistan

Mercy Corps is dispatching a team to assist some of the estimated 500,000 Pakistanis who are fleeing their homes as a result of intensifying conflict between government forces and Taliban militants.

Healing the Future ›

Country: China

At the one-year anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake, there's still much more we can do, together, for the children of Sichuan.

Exodus of IDPs overwhelms northern Sri Lanka ›

Country: Sri Lanka

Mercy Corps is marshaling a humanitarian response to the growing crisis in northern Sri Lanka, where more than 90,000 people have fled fighting between Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan army in the past week.

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Mercy Corps works to help communities emerge quickly from disasters with limited loss of life and human suffering, and with a solid foundation for secure, productive and just development.

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