Success Stories

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Fish Farming Eases Living with HIV/AIDS

Countries: Malawi
Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
Over 1,000 households have benefited from a World Vision project in rural Malawi that helps communities build and operate fish farms.

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Youth's Helping Hand Earns Global Accolade

Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Sourav Borse is a 2007 Global Action Award recipient for his efforts to mobilize his peers and build a health and education facility in rural India.

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Reducing the Risk of Disaster

Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Mercy Corps is engaging in disaster risk reduction programming to identify hazards and lessen the destruction caused by disasters.

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A New Harvest

Topics: Economic Development
Countries: India
Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Mercy Corps' work in rural Indian communities has helped to empower people both in terms of self-sufficient businesses and self-sufficient communities.

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The Connection - Education and Poverty

Previously filed under: Success Stories
Watch the Mercy Corps' short video that brings forward the facts and figures on global access to education.

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New Frontline in AIDS Awareness

Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
In Benin, young people are using innovative aproaches to increase HIV awareness.

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Rebuilding, Brick by Brick

Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
Diew Ajak has turned the lost trade of brickmaking into a sucessful business in Sudan.

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Traditional Water Mill Technology Helps Boost Livlihoods

Previously filed under: Europe and Middle East, Success Stories
The 'ghatta' has changed the lives of many Nepalese families.

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Life in Shashtepa Takes a Turn for the Better

Topics: Humanitarian Aid
Countries: Afghanistan
Previously filed under: Europe and Middle East, Success Stories
Community members in a small village have benefited from Mercy Corps' Afghanistan Rural Recovery Program.

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The ‘Mauritian Miracle'- A Southern African Success Story

Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
Unlike most of southern Africa and contrary to modern development theory, Mauritius has managed to develop substantial prospects for economic growth.

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Positive Women Taking Their Place in the Economy

Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
Local Ugandan NGOs help provide HIV positive women with projects that help support them and their families.

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Young Guru - Building Awareness Through Film

Countries: India
Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
From the streets of India, Ashikul Islam has become an award winning film maker and activist, changing the world one film at a time.

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Building the Village Education Project

Countries: Ecuador
Previously filed under: South America, Success Stories
In Ecuador, public education costs money, and many families do not have the resources to send their children to school.

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Water for Everyone

Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
How one individual's simple discovery, the refreshing taste of pure rainwater, is providing solutions in the developing world.

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Welding His Way to Work

Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Learn about how Mercy Corps matches young men and women with professional job training in Kyrgyzstan.

Breaking News

Namibia: Kavango Communities Get Natural With It

All Africa - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 04:01
THE GOSPEL of sustainable use of Namibia's natural resources is increasingly being preached in many parts of the country.

Kenya's cabinet learns the ropes

BBC News - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 04:37
Kenya's power-sharing cabinet meets for the first time for former rivals to learn how to work as a team.

Burma rejects need for foreign aid workers, UN blasts regime

Times Online - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 00:11
Eyewitness report from disaster-struck region

Burma shuns foreign aid workers

BBC News - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 03:55
Burma wants aid but is "not ready" for foreign experts, its foreign ministry says, as fears grow for cyclone survivors.

The future of social networking: mobile phones

Times Online - Thu, 05/08/2008 - 16:00
Picture this: a young woman goes to a party. She doesn't know anyone but it's fine because she has her mobile with her. A few clicks and she accesses the profiles of a dozen people at the party, including their pictures. She's in luck: two of them turn out to be friends of friends. She messages them and they start to chat.

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