Date: October – November 2011 Heavy torrential storms battered the Southeast Asian region in late 2011, resulting in large-scale flooding that affected millions. The floods claimed more than 2,000 lives across the region, displaced hundreds of thousands more and...
Date: July 2003 The intense heat wave that struck Afghanistan in July 2003 resulted in a mass exodus to the Durand Line – the Afghan-Pakistan border – close to Sada, Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan. An appeal for international humanitarian aid was made. Mercy Relief,...
Date: October 2001 – October 2003 The war against Afghanistan from 2001-2014 was part of the wider global war on terrorism known as Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) that followed the 9/11 attacks in the US. Mercy Relief stepped in to provide aid...
Focused Sector(s): Water, Sanitation, Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction (DPRR) Project: WASH for School and DPRR Date and duration: September 2012 to December 2013 / 16 months Location: Tam Giang Commune, Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam...
Focused Sector(s): Education Project: English for Everyone (EFE) Date and duration: September 2011 / 7 months Location: Thai Binh Province Beneficiaries: 80 teachers and 8,000 students from 56 schools Problem(s) While English was taught in both primary and high...
