organization set up trauma centers for children, using counseling methods that it
had helped to develop in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City
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founding, the nonprofit organization has provided $2 2 billion in humanitarian aid
and development assistance to people in 114 countries and annually reaches
nearly 19 million people in 36 nations.
Mercy Corps’ approach to on-the-ground assistance also involves more than
immediate-response and emergency-relief services, as noted in its mission statement:
Mercy Corps has learned that communities recovering from war or social
upheaval must be the agents of their own transformation for change to
endure. It’s only when communities set their own agendas, raise their
own resources, and implement programs themselves that the first
successes result in the renewed hope, confidence, and skills to continue
their development independently.
Mercy Corps thus works to foster “sustainable community development that
integrates agriculture, health, housing and infrastructure, economic development,
education, and environment and local management,” as well as launching
“initiatives that promote citizen participation, accountability, conflict management,
and the rule of law.” In India, for example, Mercy Corps has taught small-scale tea
farmers sustainable ways to grow organic teas and get fair prices for them. On
plantations owned by big tea companies, it’s helped not only to improve living
and economic conditions in worker villages but also to form self-governing
Community Initiative Groups to manage ongoing community needs in education,
infrastructure, and employment. In southern Sudan, which has been torn by
Africa’s longest civil war, Mercy Corps has built networks of local organizations to
provide such essential services as adult literacy, orphan care, and HIV/AIDS
counseling; other programs have helped to build roads and community centers
and to electrify villages.
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Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian not-for-profit organization that provides assistance in the
wake of war, social upheaval, or natural disaster.
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