Gender Equality Indonesia Project #9612

Breast Feeding Saves Lives

by Mercy Corps

Project Report | Mar 28, 2013
Our final update on the difference you've made for mothers in Indonesia!

By Carlene Deits | Project Leader

With your support, Mercy Corps has been able to promote maternal health and breast feeding to women and communities in Indonesia since 2007. We implemented programs for mothers and their families that include both educational and emotional resources.

For example, our Healthy Start program has trained hundreds of local health officials and midwives on the importance of the practice of breast feeding, and brought thousands of women together to encourage and support each other.

Though we will continue our work with these mothers in Jakarta and rural areas of Indonesia, we will no longer be doing a project page on Global Giving. You can continue to track our progress and see what we have accomplished in Indonesia, as well as check out our other work around the world. Thank you so much for all that you've contributed to Mercy Corps' efforts to expand these programs and save lives.

To continue to donate to the mission of Mercy Corps on Global Giving, come visit our Turning Crisis Into Opportunity project.

Again, we truly appreciate your support to these mothers and their families!

With gratitude,

Carlene Deits

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Dec 31, 2012
Best Mercy Corps photos of 2012!

By Carlene Deits | Project Leader

Women being trained to mediate land conflicts

As we ring in the New Year, we spend time reviewing what has been done in 2012. Because of you, we at Mercy Corps were able to do some real life-changing work this year!

You are the reason we were able to provide emergency food in the Sahel region, vocational training in Afghanistan, Hurricane Sandy relief in Haiti, and increase the number of women exclusively breast feeding in one community where Mercy Corps worked in Indonesia by 300% -- among our many other projects and programs around the world. Thank you.

We like to see the people you impacted, and I bet you do too. Over 17,000 photos were collected this year, and we would like to share some of them with you!

Check out our slide show of the ten best images from 2012 and witness photos of:

Mercy Corps training women to mediate land conflict in Guatemala.
A young woman in South Sudan where Mercy Corps helps local business owners open shops and farmers develop better techniques to support themselves and strengthen the local economy, and build new safe learning spaces, provide educational materials, and provide clean water and hygiene lessons to 12,000 children.
A community using the Mercy Corps-sponsored well in Niger to help with the drought and resulting hunger crisis.
Jhon during his training as a mechanical engineer in our rehabilitation program in Colombia. Jhon escaped life as a child soldier with the FARC militants.

And many others!

These images capture the resilient and strong-willed spirit of those we work with, but there is still so much to be done.

As you consider your end-of-year giving, I encourage you to donate to a Mercy Corps project through Global Giving. Choose this one or pick a different project to make a lifesaving difference for families in need:

Help Mercy Corps Turn Crisis Into Opportunity
Sav ing Lives in Niger, Mali & Sahel in West Africa
Relief and Recovery for Haiti Disaster Survivors of Hurricane Sandy and previous disasters
Continued Response to Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Food Crisis Hits Horn of Africa

With you, in 2013, we will continue to make it a brighter, healthier year for families in the world’s most desperate places. With your support, we can make it happen - together!

In gratitude,

Carlene Deits

A young woman in South Sudan

Mercy Corps-sponsored well fights Niger drought

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Mercy Corps' Top 10 Photos of 2012 Slideshow

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Dec 21, 2012
You made change possible!

By Carlene Deits | Project Leader

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