Displaced, yet determined

On this year's World Refugee Day, Mercy Corps shared stories of refugees on the path to self-reliance in Uganda.

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Woman in a crop in uganda
08 December 2016
Fighting hunger, one garden at a time
Women in rural Uganda are finding a simple solution to the big problem of hunger: kitchen gardens.
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Four women in ethiopia wearing bright colors and walking behind a donkey
05 December 2016
How rural women are cashing in on the milk business
We connected milk producers in remote areas with a milk processing factory to buy their milk, strengthening the dairy chain and improving lives every step of the way.
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Salma, a mother of five, participates in mercy corps' farmer's field school in her community in rural niger. through the school, she is learning how to grow more crops and beat the chronic food shortages that strike her family every year.
16 November 2016
How farm school is helping Salma beat hunger
Through training and new techniques, Salma and her community are learning to grow more hearty, bountiful crops to carry them through the hunger gap, the time between harvests when food stores traditionally run out.
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Unripe stalks of millet in a field
15 November 2016
The hidden survivors of the hunger gap
Every year, millions of people in Niger have to figure out how they will survive between harvests. This is what they look like.
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Women in colorful clothing reaching in to share food from a bowl at center in niger. photo: sean sheridan for mercy corps
09 November 2016
Kitchens around the world
In every corner of the world, food brings people together. But where we cook and gather looks different for each one of us, depending on where we live and what we've been through.
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Dima is the sole provider for her eight children, and her livelihood, like that of her community near yabello, ethiopia, depends on cattle. dima has learned to run a successful small business buying and selling milk. photo: sean sheridan for mercy corps
05 April 2016
Fighting hunger in Africa takes more than food
Hunger: It’s not a new problem for many countries in Africa. However, the reasons why millions of people go hungry go much deeper than a lack of food.
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