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Mercy Corps International
Mission: "To alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities."
In China since: 1999
Annual China budget: $750,000
Number of staff: 4 national and 1 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Zhang Chi, Manager, Resource Development & Marketing
北京市海淀区北三环西路48号3号楼12B，100086
Beijing
Tel: +86 (10) 5162-6327
International Contact:
Kate Janis
China Program Officer
3015 SW First Ave
Portland
Oregon 97201
United States
Tel: +1 503 795 8006
Activities in Other Countries:
38 countries/regions worldwide
Originally known as the Save the Refugees Fund, this organisation was founded in the United States in 1979 to assist victims of Cambodia’s humanitarian crisis. From the early 1980s, under its new name, it began working in other countries with a new emphasis on longer-term development. Mercy Corps now has main offices in Portland (Oregon, USA) Edinburgh (UK), and Hong Kong, and active programmes in more than 40 countries worldwide. The organization espouses integrated, community development approaches, and capacity building for local organisations and agencies.
In China Mercy Corps’ principal partner since 2001 has been the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation. Mercy Corps provides technical and financial support to rural microfinance programmes implemented by the foundation in the provinces of Fujian, Guizhou and Liaoning. (Past cooperation has also extended to microfinance projects in Shanxi and Sichuan).
Starting in 2002, Mercy Corps helped to establish two, locally registered NGOs in Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture of Jilin Province, bordering North Korea. The two organizations are devoted to poverty alleviation in Hunchun and Yanji respectively of the Tumen River area, and they coordinate women’s microcredit and rural development programmes in partnership with the local Women’s Federation. Mercy Corps, which has provided training, technical and financial support to the local partners, reports that, as of August 2006, 1,350 microfinance clients from 22 villages are participating in the microcredit programmes. Women participants have registered a 35% increase in household income, and 95% of borrowers have taken out repeat loans.
At the beginning of 2006, Mercy Corps entered a new partnership with a local NGO in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan. Funded by the Nike Foundation, a three-year joint programme is setting out to improve literacy, vocational and life skills for teenage Yi girls, to improve their livelihood prospects in this poor and remote area which has also suffered from a localized AIDS epidemic as a result of injecting drug use. Mercy Corps hopes through this programme also to develop the capacity of the local partner, the Liangshan Norsu Women and Children’s Development Centre, which was launched in March 2005 and has since been re-named “Liangshan Yi for Empowerment.”
Updated: January 2007 CKC
In 2005, Mercy Corps worldwide income was USD 184.7 million. USD 102 million of this came from government and multilateral agency grants and USD 66.4 million from private donors, corporations, and foundations
Links
http://www.mercycorps.org
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