For the holidays, help women in developing countries
10:30, 15 December 2009
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Mercy Corps is an international nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. "Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities."
In many places where Mercy Corps works, women are particularly vulnerable to disease, violence and extreme poverty. As any humanitarian or development worker knows, when women are given the opportunity to attend school or open a business, women gain the strength to lift their families and communities to a better future. When a woman succeeds in school or farming or business, she provides food, education and healthcare to her family. Her own health and well-being improves, her household becomes stronger, and the entire community benefits. In short, helping women helps an entire community.
If you are looking for a gift this holiday season, consider purchasing of a Mercy Kit to help women in some of the world's toughest places improve their lives and achieve their dreams. You can purchase: In the interest of full disclosure: these are symbolic gifts. Purchasing a Mercy Kit supports Mercy Corps' worldwide programs and proceeds from the sale these Mercy Kits is used where most needed. But by designating your gifts through a program like this, you are saying that women's issues should be a priority, and that does, very much, influence a nonprofit's program decisions.
