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Humanitarian crisis deepens

Humanitarian assistance is needed by millions of people.

Children line up to wash their hands before eating lunch at school in Maubisse Villa, Timor-Leste.

Community connection: Top 10 photos of 2024

18 December 2024

Our Director of Global Photography shares the stories behind the photos highlighting participant stories and Mercy Corps’ work around the world.

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The coastline of ti bwa, with its steep hillsides and rough terrain, is typical of the many haitian mountain towns that suffer from deforestation and erosion. photo: rae lyon/mercy corps

Farmers digging deep to repair the land

Mercy corps team members and government officials on the way to putamayo, deep in the colombian jungle.

The war on child soldier recruitment begins at school

After rains did not arrive, harvests failed throughout niger in 2011. now the land is dry and barren, and families are struggling to find enough to eat. photo: cully lundgren/mercy corps

Life without rain

Winter in gobi-altai province, mongolia

New techniques protect herders’ traditional way of life

In southwest Mongolia, the mix of soaring snow-capped mountains and sweeping sand dunes makes for a stunning landscape — but a tough life for residents trying to raise livestock between two harsh environments.

Mediator amanda sacul solicits the opinion of the women at a meeting of san antonio las cuevas to propose a solution to their land conflict with a neighboring community.

Women stake their claim in the land of machismo

Their roots of land conflict may date to the Spanish conquistadors, but today we’re giving women the tools to resolve them without resorting to lawyers or guns.

From a young age, girls in ethiopia are expected to gather wood, fetch water and shop for the family’s food. it can take all day to collect enough food and water for one meal, so there is often no time for school. photo: joni kabana for mercy corps

Dowries to degrees: An education for Ethiopia's young women

Mercy Corps is helping girls in one of Ethiopia’s most remote regions explore a future full of new possibilities by providing them with scholarships to complete secondary school.