A hotter planet, a hungrier world

The impacts of climate change are pummeling nations around the world. But for the poor, the consequences are particularly destructive: more poverty, more hunger. We can't end these plights, then, if we don't tackle climate change, too.
Mercy Corps sees the threat of climate change in many places where we work. In Ethiopia and around the world, we’re helping people adapt to increasingly unpredictable rainfall and weather, because we know their food, health and lives depend on it. Photo: Sean Sheridan for Mercy Corps

10 photos of resilience in 2019

Moments that represent the diversity of the world’s challenges, and highlight some of our most breakthrough programmes
Ezra Millstein, senior content producer, captures Mercy Corps’ impact on people and communities with his camera. Here, he photographs herders in Altan-Ovoo, Mongolia, working with us to keep their cattle, sheep and other animals free of insects and disease. Photo: Sean Sheridan for Mercy Corps

Priorities for 2020

In a world threatened by a changing climate, increasing conflict and growing inequality, we know that we can only build a stronger future through collaboration.
two men looking at papers at a desk

A farmer in Syria

In a land scarred by conflict, one Syrian farmer sees something unexpected: opportunity.
Abu Goubran pictured in a green field

The lifesaving power of cash

When 16-year-old Zulyatu was left alone to care for her siblings, Mercy Corps gave her a powerful tool to help keep them alive: cash.
Nigerian siblings struggling with hunger.