2008 a n n u a l r e p o r t [[tt u u r r n n i i n n g g crcr i i s s i i s s ii n n t t o o opportunityopportunity ]] From Our Leadership Team

There is no doubt that 2008 will be remembered as a year of crisis. As the year dawned, fuel prices were at all-time highs, straining the household budgets of families around the c o n t e n t s world. Soon to follow, global food prices soared, creating millions of newly hungry in [ ] a matter of months and making it even harder for the world’s poor to make ends meet. From Our Leadership Team 1 Crisis is an opening In the fall, the world financial system started to crumble, leading to home foreclosures, personal and business bankruptcies, massive layoffs and increased poverty around Who We Are 3 the globe. How We Work 5 for positive change. Where We Work 8 The food, fuel and financial crises touch everyone in the world, and they have made What We Do 11 Mercy Corps’ mission more important than ever. The needs are immense, but amid the Afghanistan 13 Pakistan 17 anxiety and the suffering, we see — as we always do in tough times – the incredible Iraq 21 resilience and potential of everyday people. China 25 Somalia 29 A Chinese proverb says that crisis is opportunity riding a dangerous wind. That wise Sudan 33 sentiment frames Mercy Corps’ world view: that a crisis is an opening for positive Action Center 37 change. Old systems are disrupted, old assumptions are challenged, old solutions are Stewardship and Support 39 judged insufficient. When natural disasters strike, or conflict rages, or economies Endorsements 40 collapse, we seize the chance to build back better. Financial Summaries 41 Supporters 42 In this report, you will find out about our work with communities — catalyzing economic Partners 46 Leadership 48 growth, boosting food production, improving health, developing innovative new solutions, For More Information 49 fostering peace and more. Continue reading to learn how we are helping turn crisis into opportunity for millions of individuals and families around the world.

About Our Cover Kavita Suntharalinjam and her husband, Suman, are farmers who grow long beans, maize and chili in Sri Nancy Lindborg Neal Keny-Guyer Lanka. Thanks to a loan they received from Mercy Corps, President Chief Executive Officer Kavita and Suman bought a pump, a hose and seeds. The new equipment saves three and a half hours of labor each day so they can expand their farm business.

Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps Linda Mason Chair of the Board of Directors

1 Who We Are

Mercy Corps is a team of 3,700 professionals helping turn crisis into opportunity for millions around the world. By trade, we are engineers, financial analysts, drivers, community organizers, project managers, public health experts, administrators, social entrepreneurs and logisticians. In spirit, we are activists, optimists, innovators and proud partners of the people we serve. ¶We live and work in more than 40 countries, we speak hundreds of languages, and we practice all of the world’s major religions. ¶We help people quickly recover from war, natural disaster and economic collapse to build a better future for their families. We work in places where we see the potential to turn a situation around, helping communities join forces with each other and harness the power of markets to change their lives for the better. ¶We prioritize the expressed needs of those we serve, not imposing foreign answers to local problems, and partner with them to create durable solutions. As careful stewards of the resources entrusted to us, we work to build local capacity, move toward self-sustainability and benefit the greatest number of people. ¶Around the world, where people meet hardship with energy and hope, Mercy Corps is helping people help themselves.

3 How We Work

Mercy Corps turns crisis into opportunity risks, pilot new ideas and scale up those in some of the world’s toughest places that perform best. In our world, the best – places where intolerable conditions solutions are self-sustaining: they create create an opening for profound lasting change without requiring ongoing transitions, and where hardworking charitable funding. Please see page 6 to families have the chance to build learn more about social innovations at c h a n g e Intolerable conditions something new. Mercy Corps. [ ] create an opening for How do we do that? Finally, we understand that global solutions demand the concerted profound transitions. Where people are thrown into the power of global action. That’s why we chaos of war, economic collapse or are cultivating the next generation of natural disaster, we provide immediate, compassionate people determined to sustaining humanitarian assistance, build a more just world. Our new Global always with the goal of hastening Engagement initiative educates youth recovery. As the most urgent needs and adults and inspires people to act to are met, we immediately move toward end hunger and poverty. Please turn to programming that pursues longer- page 37 to read about our new Action term stability and prosperity. We are Centers. committed to remaining in-country long enough to help communities establish market-driven solutions that are self- sustaining. We never set a time limit, but we do generally aim to move on within ten years, if not sooner. Please read about our efficient, field-tested programs on pages 11 through 35.

The world’s greatest problems require the most innovative solutions. We partner with innovators from the private and public sectors to infuse their best thinking into our approaches. We take responsible

5 A Pioneer in Social Innovations

We believe that solving social problems To identify and scale social innovations, in the developing world requires a we rely on an internal team of analysts blending of sustainable, entrepreneurial who scan for cutting-edge ideas that strategies with the deep knowledge of can be adapted for the countries where culture and context that comes from we work. Our technical specialists bring c h a n g e working alongside local communities expertise across the critical sectors, [ ] each day. such as climate change, food security and health. Our regional and country Mercy Corps operates in some of the leadership contribute deep knowledge toughest and most insecure, failed and of the communities we serve. And our fragile states. Despite our familiarity local partners provide both inspiration with the inherent risks of operating and and a reality check – sharing innovations investing in these places, we see in them that have sprouted locally and pointing a great opportunity for innovation. Our us to the ideas that have the best goal is to develop solutions that have chance for success. the potential to reach vast numbers of people on an ongoing basis, without Social innovation is not only an exciting continued charitable assistance. We adventure – it is critical to confronting seek innovative solutions that harness the challenges we face. the power of market forces, balanced by strong civil and public sectors, and spread by the ingenuity of local communities.

6 Edinburgh, Scotland

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[a r o u n d t h e w o r l d ] Where We Work Africa Asia Caucasus/Central Asia Mercy Corps tackles the global Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided $1.7 billion in Mercy Corps headquarters Central African Republic, Afghanistan, China, India, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Democratic Republic Indonesia, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan challenges of hunger, poverty and Portland, Oregon, of the Congo, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, North assistance to people in 107 nations. Our global programs, United States of America conflict with programs that focus on Kenya, Liberia, Niger, Korea (Democratic Middle East supported by headquarters in North America and Europe, Edinburgh, Scotland, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, People’s Republic Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, developing economic opportunity United Kingdom Zimbabwe of Korea), Pakistan, in 2008 reached 14.5 million people in more than 40 Syria, West Bank and Philippines, Sri Lanka, for all – including the burgeoning Gaza countries. This map shows where Mercy Corps has worked Timor-Leste Countries where Mercy Americas youth population – building strong in the past and the countries in which we currently operate. Corps currently works Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Balkans communities, and creating a platform Countries where Mercy United States Bosnia and Herzegovina, for global engagement. Corps has worked Kosovo

8 9 What We Do

These features describe how Mercy Corps programs are helping people recover, as determined by the most critical issues they face. We are boosting agricultural productivity to combat the food crisis in Afghanistan and elsewhere. In Pakistan, our tuberculosis campaign uses a comprehensive approach that is restoring thousands of people to good health. We are teaching conflict resolution to people in Iraq; peace-building is a vital aspect of Mercy Corps’ work to create a more secure world. In China, we are giving children the support they need to heal from the trauma of the earthquake that destroyed their homes and schools – through programs we have deployed in other countries to help thousands of survivors. We are building facilities for clean drinking water and sanitation in Somalia – one of the most basic and cost- effective ways to improve life and prevent disease. And in Sudan, we are showing conflict-displaced Darfurian farmers new ways to support themselves once they return home.

11 [ HELPING FAMILIES SUPPORT THEMSELVES THROUGH AGRICULTURE ] Afghanistan

As Afghanistan struggles to recover from 30 years field units that are helping farmers improve the health of conflict and the global food crisis, Mercy Corps – and productivity of their sheep and cattle. In a first which has been in continuous operation there since for Afghanistan, these vet units have become fully self- 1986 – is helping hardworking Afghans regain their sustaining – without need for Mercy Corps subsidies ability to support their families. – since their transition to profit-making private enterprises. Agriculture is a vital livelihood and the focus of dozens of Mercy Corps programs aimed at boosting local Our work to revitalize the fruit and nut tree industry economies and food supplies. We’re helping farmers is providing farmers with legitimate cash crops by increase productivity through improved water, pest restoring orchards and nurseries damaged during and soil management; seed production; and planting decades of conflict. One lucrative source of income and harvest techniques. We’re advancing long-term is traditional crops, such as grapes and pomegranates, goals such as broadening community participation, cultivated for the profitable export market. creating jobs for men and women and linking poor communities to sustainable markets. Young Afghans are discovering a productive future in Most families in Afghanistan agriculture thanks to Mercy Corps’ efforts to rebuild cannot afford to buy toys for their Our programs teach basic literacy and numeracy to the country’s system of agricultural high schools. children. This girl in Kunduz, like help rural women gain a greater voice. We’re also We’re also developing a nationwide high school so many other Afghan children, teaching women how to earn extra income by raising curriculum in agriculture and a teacher training was resourceful enough to make poultry and starting household gardens. program. Moreover, Mercy Corps is helping refugees her own. Kite-flying is traditionally rebuild agricultural livelihoods once they return home. a sport for men and boys in To ensure that capital is locally available to sustain Where returnees lack land or livelihood, we provide Afghanistan, although young girls these enterprises, we’re improving access to them with vocational skills training and direct market sometimes join in the fun. agricultural credit through Ariana Financial Services, linkages to expand their job opportunities. a microfinance institution started by Mercy Corps Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps in 2002 and independent as of 2008. Most Ariana Traditional means of support, like agriculture, can clients are women. benefit from 21st-century technologies. We’re working with an Afghan telecommunications company to Mercy Corps operates two high-quality wheat seed deliver information about prices, market opportunities centers to increase agricultural production. They are and best practices via mobile phone text messages now mostly self-sustaining private enterprises, thus so that farmers can make more informed business contributing to the nascent domestic seed industry. decisions. We have also established a network of 23 veterinary

13 Mercy Corps poultry trainers Mahkrokh (left) and Fairda (right) work in rural Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, teaching women how to raise healthy, productive chickens so that they can contribute to the family income. Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps

[afghanistan ] Mahkrokh and Fairda: Learning to Raise Healthy Chickens

urvey the fields and farmlands of care for their new flocks. We’re training Srural Afghanistan and you might poultry workers like Mahkrokh and The global food crisis is throwing be surprised to note the absence Fairda, who make regular house calls into stark relief the weakness of women and girls. The world of to the women who’ve received poultry. of many current methods of agriculture throughout Central Asia Mahkrokh and Fairda ensure that the growing and supplying food. is dominated by men, young and old, chickens are healthy and answer any In 30 countries, Mercy Corps who tend to flocks of sheep and goats, questions their owners may have. agriculture programs are till fields and harvest vegetable and They also connect the budding poultry making important advances in wheat crops. entrepreneurs with local markets that production and marketing. In the wish to buy fresh eggs so the women short term, we’re ensuring that Nevertheless, through a Mercy Corps can bring much-needed income into more people have enough to eat. program, women in Kunduz Province households that are usually very poor. are finding ways to contribute to For the long term, we’re helping the family income. They’re bringing “This project allows the women to people earn higher incomes, opportunities inside their domain – not have to rely on their husbands for resist future shocks to their food the home. money for household needs, clothes systems and better manage and and food for the children,” says Fairda. c h a n g e share limited natural resources. Mercy Corps has provided 120 “And they can use any extra eggs to [ ] households with 40 chickens each help feed their children.” and taught women how to feed and

14 [strengthening l o c a l h e a l t h s y s t e m s t o c u r e tuberculosis ] Pakistan

Mercy Corps has achieved remarkable success in Collaborating closely with national and global TB strengthening Pakistan’s public health systems to entities, we ensure that our programs contribute to better fight the scourge of tuberculosis (TB). What larger efforts to address this devastating disease. started as small, local programs are now having a By working alongside the people we serve and tremendous positive effect nationwide, with stunning supporting and expanding local solutions, we are cure rates and a vastly improved ability to continue helping communities create the lasting change they providing sustainable, long-term care to the Pakistani wish to see. people. Our program launched in 2004, with special outreach TB has become an intractable public health issue in to youth and women. We employed health workers many countries. Each year, two million people – 98 to meet with women one on one, teach them about percent of them from the developing world – die from TB, encourage them to seek early medical help and this very contagious but curable bacterial disease. support them during treatment. Complicating the issue is the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains, which arise when patients fail These efforts to control TB have been so successful After a devastating earthquake to complete treatment regimens. that the government of Pakistan has declared Mercy in 2005, Mercy Corps helped Corps the lead agency for TB control in Balochistan displaced people, including these Mercy Corps is building the capacity of Pakistan’s and Sindh provinces. We work through 65 government children, get back on their feet. We existing public health facilities to cure this grave diagnostic centers that are helping detect more distributed school supplies and disease. We work with community organizations, cases, reduce the prevalence of the disease and built temporary classrooms so their providing staff training and technical mentoring prevent further transmission. education could continue. to help them apply best practices, design their own solutions and set their own goals for TB case This year, 229,243 patients received TB care from Photo: Jackie Lee/Mercy Corps detection and cure rates. Mercy Corps–supported government facilities in Pakistan. Our success rate is an impressive 88 Our campaign follows the World Health percent, and the impact on the larger community Organization’s directly observed therapy short-course is substantial: our TB programs are enhancing the (DOTS) protocol, in which community health workers productivity and well-being of approximately 6.5 observe treatment in patients’ homes to ensure that million men, women and children. We believe that the regimen is completed, slowing the spread of drug- enabling people to remain healthy and productive resistant cases. helps prevent future potential causes of conflict and poverty.

17 “I am alive now because of this treatment.”

When Sadiqa was stricken with TB, she could no longer work, earn money or provide for her children. Thanks to a Mercy Corps-supported program, she’s now healthy again — and self-sufficient.

Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps

[p a k i s t a n ] Sadiqa: Recovered from TB and Healthy Again

Public health is essential to t was about a year since Sadiqa got Mercy Corps, in tandem with Pakistan’s much of the work we do. Once Ia cough that wouldn’t go away. “It Ministry of Health and The Global people have clean water to drink, was quite difficult for me,” the 50-year- Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and adequate sanitation, enough old seamstress remembers. “I couldn’t Maleria, is helping people like Sadiqa food to eat and essential health sleep or work because of my coughing. with a comprehensive detection and I was getting weaker day by day and treatment program in 57 districts. We care, they can invest their was up all night.” train lab supervisors, provide medicine energies in a small business, and teach rural communities about a child’s education and other Sadiqa, a widowed mother of five, was early detection and disease prevention ways to make life better for stricken with TB – the deadly disease so that they can continue to fight the their families. Our health that the World Health Organization disease without being dependent on programs focus on the basics estimates has affected more than 1.5 outside help. and are designed to become million people throughout Pakistan. c h a n g e self-sustaining. We get local TB is especially prevalent among We have also set up regional health [ ] people involved so that they people aged 15 to 59, who are the clinics, like the one Sadiqa visited to fully understand how to improve most economically productive citizens, receive her last round of medicine. She their health — and maintain good making its effects – weight loss, was referred by her local doctor, who health over the long term. fatigue and chest pains – particularly didn’t have the equipment to diagnose devastating to their livelihoods. Illness her correctly. Eight months later, she is forced Sadiqa to stop working. When healthy and thankful. “I am alive now,” she could no longer sell her sheep’s she says, “because of this treatment.” wool carpets, she could not provide for her children.

19 [r e s o l v i n g c o n f l i c t p e a c e f u l l y t o p r o t e c t livelihoods ] Iraq

When violence tears a country apart, communication Mercy Corps’ conflict management program in Iraq and compromise are often the first casualties. has produced some truly remarkable results. Take, Mercy Corps believes that engaging adversaries in for instance, our work to protect livelihoods in Basra. productive dialogue can lead to peaceful, lasting Iraq’s Department of Agriculture had rented a piece of change for war-torn communities. Mercy Corps’ 2004 land to a group of sharecroppers who wanted to grow merger with the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based tomatoes, potatoes and onions. Conflict Management Group strengthened its ability to conduct conflict management programs worldwide. However, the sharecroppers’ contract stipulated that if oil were found there, the land would be turned Our peace-building programs help communities over to the Southern Oil Company and the contracts identify the underlying causes of violence, which are considered null and void. Southern Oil began often linked to a lack of resources such as land or exploring, found sizeable deposits and requested that jobs. We equip people with the negotiation tools and the contracts be canceled and the sharecroppers skills they require to develop creative solutions to expelled – just as their harvest was about to begin. these complex issues. The war in Iraq has destroyed lives Distraught at the idea of losing everything, the farmers and livelihoods – and disrupted the Since 2004, we have been helping several threatened to kill any Southern Oil employees that education of thousands of children communities in south-central Iraq deal with violence. came on the land. A participant in Mercy Corps’ like Naji (front) and his friend, Our team has trained more than 120 Iraqis – tribal conflict management program intervened to resolve who peer through the window of sheikhs, religious clerics, academics, civil society the dispute. He convinced the oil company to wait a damaged school. Mercy Corps leaders, community members and local government until after the harvest before voiding the contracts. is helping Iraqi children like these representatives – in the fundamentals of negotiation Once the land was transferred, some of the boys to continue their education. and mediation. sharecroppers found new jobs working for the oil company. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps Our approach is to supplement, not replace, a society’s traditional dispute-resolution systems. We This story illustrates how our programs help create enter the arena with respect for local customs and powerful advocates for peace. Resolving today’s practices, looking to augment them where possible conflicts can forestall tomorrow’s violence, making life with new tools and techniques. We recognize, as do safer and the path ahead brighter for the people we our local partners, that today’s levels of violence can serve. overwhelm problem-solving systems that evolved over hundreds of years.

21 “There is something amazing about this community — something in our hearts. We are a civil-rights organization. We need justice.”

[i r a q ] Kirkuk Women Are Building Peace

These women (pictured above) are educated ercy Corps is training women in participant. “The man has to be professionals who are working with Mercy MKirkuk, Iraq, to become leaders convinced for equality between him Corps to promote peace and justice and and work cooperatively against violence and the woman. Women have eyes, to address the literacy and social needs of and hatred. Our program builds a man has eyes. Women have hands, women in Iraq. women’s leadership and management a man has hands. There is nothing Photo: Jacob Colie/Mercy Corps skills so that they’re equipped to design different from them. Our duties and and oversee projects that steer children responsibilities have to be the same.” and youth away from violence and Like the others in her discussion group, toward productive activities, such as she is excited to see change coming to education and sports. her country.

“If there is going to be democracy Mercy Corps also strengthens local in Iraq, it is because women step organizations to work on the issues forward,” said one participant at a common to all women and promotes recent Mercy Corps gathering. The networking among women leaders women were convened to discuss the of all political, religious and ethnic issues they face in Kirkuk and to be backgrounds. “I am a Kurd sitting with trained in results-based management. Arabs and a Turkmen,” said one woman The training also informs women about at the gathering. “There is something their rights and possible roles in peace amazing about this community – and security initiatives. something in our hearts. We are a civil-rights organization. We need “We must raise awareness,” justice.” commented another meeting c h a n g e 22 [ ] [ HELPING CHILDREN RECOVER FROM EARTHQUAKE TRAUMA ] China

When the 7.9-magnitude earthquake rocked Sichuan became our largest-ever China initiatives. As always, Province in May, 2008 – causing at least 69,000 we’re building local capacity through our programs, deaths and displacing up to 10 million people – teaching caregivers so that they in turn can train Mercy Corps was there to help. their peers.

The earthquake was shattering for thousands of Comfort for Kids provides caregivers with basic children. The young suffer disproportionately during trauma training and a customized workbook so that natural disasters because they are both physically they can lead workshops that help children express and psychologically more vulnerable than adults. their feelings in a safe environment. For the Sichuan Tragically, the quake struck during school hours earthquake, Mercy Corps collaborated with senior- when students were gathered in classrooms. There, level psychologists, such as the Chinese American and after returning home, many children saw that Psychoanalytic Alliance, and dedicated volunteers their friends and relatives had been killed or injured, to adapt, translate and print 60,000 copies of this and that places they thought of as safe – home and valuable therapeutic tool. school – were destroyed or damaged. Children then After the Sichuan earthquake, had to endure the stress of living in tents or crowded Moving Forward trains caregivers to lead organized Mercy Corps helped children shelters. The earthquake shook their most basic sense recreational activities for children that provide a safe, recover. These students at the of security and stability. structured environment, create a sense of normalcy, Yunji Primary School are enjoying alleviate stress and build resilience. While adults the games organized by a theater Experts believe that providing psychosocial support to focus on rebuilding their homes and livelihoods, troupe and its play about the children soon after a disaster can prevent symptoms children participating in Moving Forward activities importance of hygiene. of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from can rebuild their self-esteem, practice teamwork and escalating into a lifelong condition. regain trust – all crucial to healing. Photo: Norman Ng for Mercy Corps

That’s why, even as it rushed emergency supplies Again with an eye to capacity building, we provide to the area, Mercy Corps began working with two Moving Forward program leaders with a toolkit that local partners – the Sichuan Youth Federation (a includes detailed instructions, an activity guide and a subsidiary of the All China Youth Federation) and variety of play equipment. We teach them to identify the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation – to youth trauma and apply core psychosocial themes help children cope. Our goal: to train area mental through interactive sports and games. In Sichuan, we health professionals to support children after the trained more than 1,600 caregivers to help 64,000 quake. Comfort for Kids and Moving Forward Chinese children.

25 With help from Mercy Corps, Wang Xinyao (polka-dot shirt) has returned to school and set her sights on becoming a journalist. Photo: Norman Ng for Mercy Corps

[c h i n a ] Wang Xinyao: Quake Can’t Shake Her Goals

ang Xinyao was on the third household items, health supplies and Wfloor of her school when a school materials to thousands of young massive earthquake struck her village people like Wang. We helped Wang “My favorite words in in China’s Sichuan Province in May and her classmates recover from the 2008. At first she didn’t know what was trauma through our Comfort for Kids English are ‘honest’ and [c h a n g e ] happening. “I thought a classmate was and Moving Forward therapeutic playing a joke on me by shaking my techniques and activities. ‘trustworthy’, because chair,” she recalls. “But then our math I think they are the basic teacher was telling everyone to run.” This assistance helped Wang return She doesn’t remember how she got out to the classroom and concentrate requirements for any of the building. on her studies – a high priority for an eager young lady. “I want to be a news human being.” Months later, the 16-year-old middle broadcaster when I finish school,” she school student was living in a tent enthuses, “because I like telling people outside her collapsed family home what’s happening around us.” and going to school in a temporary classroom that sits in the shadow of her With the aspiration to become one damaged school building. Reminders of of China’s top TV journalists, she is the earthquake are everywhere, but she motivated to succeed in school. Wang’s seems to look past those things. ambition arises from a foundation of character and integrity. “My favorite That’s in large part due to the strong words in English are ‘honest’ and support she received right after ‘trustworthy’,” she reflects, “because I the quake. Mercy Corps provided think they are the basic requirements for any human being.”

27 [e m p l o y i n g l o c a l p e o p l e t o b u i l d s a f e w a t e r facilities] Somalia

If you ask a community in crisis what it needs to (which kills more than 1.4 million children worldwide rebuild, clean water will be at the top of the list. each year) and other preventable waterborne Safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are the illnesses. We have taught safe hygiene and sanitation very foundations of human health and community practices to 8,000 households. In places that lack development. Mercy Corps emphasizes all three government support, we also teach communities how in its relief and recovery initiatives. What’s distinct to set priorities, make plans and implement projects. about our approach is that we hire local residents to Altogether, these projects will serve 170,400 people, construct the water facilities they require. of whom one quarter live in camps for those forced by violence to flee their homes. We work with communities to identify their priorities. We then supply the daily wages that enable people In northern Somalia, our Bossaso project brings clean to support their families with dignity and gain a stake water and appropriate sanitation to people living in in their own futures while building vital infrastructure camps. It also teaches safe hygiene practices. We such as wells and latrines. Our cash-for-work first gained the cooperation of those who own the approach creates jobs and injects badly needed land where the camps are located, because they must This Somali woman and her family currency into local economies. approve any construction. Our team successfully are benefiting from a Mercy Corps negotiated with the landowners to allow the camp project that hires local workers to Mercy Corps projects are bringing life-giving water community to access the new water and sanitation build levees. The project protects and healthier sanitation to communities in Guatemala, facilities. her village from flooding, allows Sudan, Tajikistan and Zimbabwe – and to Somalia, crops to reach maturity – and puts an extremely poor “failed state” where tremendous We then hired local people to build and maintain five much-needed wages in the hands numbers of people have been displaced by violence. beerkads – 10,000-liter concrete-lined water-holding of the most vulnerable households In helping Somalis build potable water and sanitation tanks with taps – and 50 family or communal latrines. so that they can buy food, clothes facilities, Mercy Corps is enabling people to survive, We established five waste disposal sites and, after and other necessities. reducing the water-access issues that represent developing and translating educational materials into sources of conflict and freeing communities to take the local language, taught safe hygiene and sanitation Photo: Jeremy Barnicle/Mercy Corps the next steps in rebuilding their lives. practices to 4,000 households. These projects will ultimately serve 20,000 people living in camps. We are working in five districts of southern Somalia. Through our large cash-for-work program, we have employed area workers to build 34 wells and 1,300 family and 350 communal latrines. We also conduct hygiene education campaigns to prevent diarrhea

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Farhiyo Hussein (left and center) is delighted to have access to affordable clean water for her family. Abass Hassan (right) chaired the camp committee that worked with Mercy Corps on the reservoir project. Photos: Mercy Corps

[s o m a l i a ] Farhiyo Hussein: A Wellspring of Progress

or the past seven years, 30-year- In 2008, Mercy Corps hired local Fold Farhiyo Hussein has lived in residents to construct a reservoir Safe water, sanitation and a camp in the northern Somalia port and fill it with safe drinking water. hygiene are the development city of Bossaso. Like many camps for “Mercy Corps is the first and only initiatives that deliver the internally displaced persons (IDPs), hers organization to either construct a greatest benefit for the least lacked access to safe drinking water. reservoir or supply water to this She could not afford the inflated prices camp,” notes Abass. investment. A recent UN study charged by private water vendors. To states that simply providing clean avoid the risks inherent in fetching Today, with a clean, reliable water water and toilets in developing water outside the camp – especially source close by, Farhiyo’s world has countries is the fastest and most at night, when rapes and beatings are opened up. “Now, I don’t have to cost-effective way to eradicate common – Farhiyo, a mother of five, worry about water,” she says with a crippling poverty and improve spent much of her day walking as far as smile. “I can comfortably search for world health. Providing access six kilometers to collect free or cheap a job, knowing my family has access to drinking water and sanitation water. Getting water took up the time to water.” Since she no longer has to pays for itself by creating jobs, she wanted to use to earn income to pay exorbitant fees, “we have enough raising productivity lost to illness feed her children. money for other domestic needs. And and saving money spent on thanks to the safe water, my children treating diseases. In other households with elderly are finally looking healthy.” parents, children had to choose between going to school and procuring Most important for the long run, camp water for the family. Water, of necessity, residents are taking the water project came first. Even families that did buy one big step further. With the money water from private vendors were at risk. saved, the community – on its own “The water was not treated,” explains initiative – constructed a second camp committee chair Abass Hassan, reservoir. “so cases of diarrhea were common in almost all families, including mine.” 30 [improving c r o p s – a n d f u t u r e livelihoods – f o r d a r f u r families] Sudan

In Sudan, where life for the 2.5 million people providing opportunities to strengthen peaceful displaced by conflict in Darfur is fraught with hardship, relations. Mercy Corps is helping communities survive now – and plant the seeds of a better future. We’re providing Participating farmers – many of whom are women emergency relief to help people in Darfur who have – are already reaping the fruits of their labor. From been forced to leave their homes make the most of life the first few harvests, they have supplemented their in temporary camps and villages, while at the same household food baskets, shared vegetables with a time equipping them to support their families once group of especially vulnerable camp residents and they are able to return. earned cash by selling excess yields.

Farming is the traditional way of life for many In one year, our demonstration farms reached Sudanese. But people displaced by conflict lose 9,217 people, most of whom are displaced. The their most valuable assets – land and livestock, tools skills they learn equip the farmers to set up small and seeds – and can no longer support themselves businesses once they are able to return to their through agriculture. People living in the Darfur camps villages. In West Darfur, Sudan, these worry about how they will generate a stable income women (above) collect water for after they leave. In three camps Mercy Corps also operates centers daily use in the Zalingei camp, where we train women – including small-scale traders, where Mercy Corps is helping Mercy Corps is working with conflict-affected youth and artisans – in marketable skills. They’re Darfuris survive. A man (top right) families who have identified land they will be able to learning new techniques in food processing, tailoring, who has been able to return to farm. We’re using demonstration gardens to teach metalworking and other handicrafts. Mercy Corps his native Abyei region – a critical farmers how to improve yields and quality through provides business training and basic equipment so border region where Mercy Corps new varieties of staples like millet and sorghum, that they’re ready to jump-start their new enterprises. is strengthening the local economy as well as better soil and land cultivation, nursery – builds a new home for his family. management and water conservation practices. We’re Mercy Corps is showing Sudanese women living in growing seedlings and planting more than a dozen camps how to build fuel-efficient stoves that do much Photos: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps (above) types of vegetables. We’re also providing seeds and more than provide heat to cook the family meal. The and Rodrigo Ordóñez/Mercy Corps (top right). cultivation tools, like hoes and donkey plows. small, practical stoves actually lessen the women’s personal vulnerability by reducing the number of times Our training sessions encourage farmers to share they must venture into dangerous bush areas what they’ve learned with their peers. Some of our to collect firewood. Moreover, by using less of the centers serve both African and Arab communities, area’s scarce wood as fuel, the stoves also protect the environment.

33 “I am very happy with Mercy Corps’ support. Now I am able to sell peanuts, buy clothes for my children and improve my life.”

[s u d a n ] Halima: Growing Peanuts to Clothe Her Children

Halima (above right) is expanding her alima is making good use of her together to save money by purchasing garden, thanks to a Mercy Corps program Htime in the IDP camp of Hamadiya supplies in bulk. that’s boosting her vegetable harvest – in Zalingei, Sudan, by acquiring skills and bringing in much-needed cash to she can use now – and later, when To prepare for the dry season, Halima is her family. she returns home. She’s participating learning how to make irrigation canals Photo: Rodrigo Ordóñez/Mercy Corps in Mercy Corps’ demonstration garden and how to use a natural pesticide from project, learning how to increase yield the neem tree to protect her crops and grow more varieties of produce, without chemicals. both to feed to her own family and to sell. Halima is also finding out how to get the best yield from the small, traditionally The project Halima participates in woman-cultivated home garden called focuses on growing okra, maize and a jubraka. These plots are typically peanuts. Each person gets a plot used to plant such crops as millet, okra, measuring 20 meters by 10 meters. peanuts, snake cucumber, sorghum and “The training is very good,” says Halima. sweet potatoes, and they help extend “I have learned how to make ridges the growing cycle into the rainy season. and furrows, and to maintain the proper distance between the holes where the Halima now looks ahead with hope. seeds go.” “I am very happy with Mercy Corps’ support,” she says. “Now I am able to Halima and nine other farmers sell peanuts, buy clothes for my children c h a n g e participate in the demonstration garden and improve my life.” [ ] project. They gather in a school area to discuss what they’re learning and band

35 Step Right In… [a n d t a k e a c t i o n t o e n d h u n g e r ]

This year, Mercy Corps took the historic step of to clean water. By tying food insufficiency to these opening the world’s first Action Center to End World underlying issues, the Action Center will help its Hunger, an interactive public space that challenges online community generate increasingly strong public and empowers visitors to tackle the number one will to address the problem globally. preventable health risk worldwide. Globally, well over 1 billion people go to bed hungry each night, and Mercy Corps’ work overseas is well established. 25,000 people perish daily from food insufficiency. But the organization has come to see that a well- Our Action Center, located in New York City, gives informed, mobilized constituency in the developed Mercy Corps a street-level presence to engage world is critical to generating both the intention schoolchildren, teens and adults in the effort to and the aid funding to end suffering, poverty and eradicate hunger. oppression abroad. The solutions to the most complex global challenges require partnerships between the Next summer, Mercy Corps will open a companion people and governments of the world’s economically center in its new headquarters in Portland, Oregon, powerful nations, as well as between the countries employing design elements and multimedia content where these challenges are most deeply felt. To Mercy Corps opened its new developed for the New York Action Center. that end, Mercy Corps has launched its Global Action Center to End World Engagement initiative to radically alter the way people Hunger in New York in October More than just physical spaces, the two Action think about the world, and their role within it. The 2008, welcoming visitors to learn Centers are gateways to a lifetime of real-world Action Center is one cornerstone of that initiative. about today’s solutions to hunger activism. Mercy Corps aims to help people better and poverty. understand global issues and create a powerful The Action Centers aim to welcome an estimated Photos: Lou Rocco for Mercy cohort of people working together for change – which 50,000 visitors each year, with an emphasis on Corps (above) and Sebastian will have an important impact on Mercy Corps’ work students, their parents and their teachers. Visitors Golling for Mercy Corps (top right) abroad. will discover highly interactive, media-rich exhibits. A variety of technologies bring to life the daily Mercy Corps sees hunger as a potent symbol of experiences of communities and aid agencies as they poverty. At the centers and online, we help visitors strive to improve lives around the globe. Beyond just develop complex views of hunger and its various providing information, the Action Center challenges causes: poor agricultural practices, inefficient visitors to analyze pressing global issues and commit markets, weak health and education services, to taking meaningful action. environmental degradation, conflict and lack of access

37 Stewardship & Support

Mercy Corps is honored by the extraordinary generosity of the thousands of individuals, organizations, businesses and other partners who supported our work in the 2008 fiscal year (July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008). ¶ On behalf of the many people we serve across the globe, thank you for your generosity, loyalty and concern for others. ¶ We are deeply aware of our responsibility to be careful guardians of the contributions we receive on behalf of our beneficiaries. In this section you will read about our excellent record of responsible stewardship and accountability. ¶ You also will find summaries of the financial statements for our most recent fiscal year. Here we also list the names of many of our supporters, in special recognition of the extraordinary ways they have contributed to Mercy Corps’ work this past fiscal year. ¶ Thank you for all you do. Your support is changing lives for the better around the world.

39 A Record of Exemplary Stewardship Mercy Corps 2008 Financial Summaries With headquarters in the United States and Europe, programs in more than 40 countries and vital Mercy Corps has long been recognized as an excellent steward of the partnerships around the world, Mercy Corps is working on a global scale to help people build resources entrusted to it. Over the past five years, more than 89 percent of our secure, productive and just communities. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided $1.7 billion resources have been allocated to programs that help people in need. Ensuring in assistance to people in 107 nations. In fiscal year 2008 (July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008), the that resources are wisely spent is the cornerstone of our values, vision and resources of Mercy Corps’ global operations totaled more than $244 million – a record – enabling strategy for growth in the future. We are proud of the awards, endorsements, us to reach 14.5 million people in need. memberships and honors that substantiate our track record of accountability.

Audited U.S. Financial Summary Global Financial Summary Mercy Corps U.S. Operations: Condensed Summary of Support, Revenue and Mercy Corps U.S. and Global Partners: Support, Revenue and Expenditures Expenditures FY 2008 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2007 Support and Revenue Support and Revenue Proyecto Aldea Global 2,554,509 2,526,782 Government and Organizational Support Mercy Corps Scotland 29,182,552 34,114,455 American Institute Fast Company Government Grants 82,129,992 84,701,582 Mercy Corps U.S. 152,883,475 135,784,173 International Organization Grants 7,067,740 6,157,623 Mercy Corps U.S. Material Aid 59,334,407 51,148,521 of Philanthropy Mercy Corps was selected Material Aid 3,368,457 2,549,634 Total Support and Revenue 243,954,943 223,573,931 The American Institute of as a winner of the 2008 Fast Subtotal: Government and Organizational Support 92,566,189 93,408,839 Expenditures Philanthropy, a leading charity Company/Monitor Group Social Private Support Program watchdog agency, awarded Capitalist Award. Fast Company Contributions 28,803,067 28,110,628 Proyecto Aldea Global 2,637,883 2,090,228 Grants 29,334,367 10,515,076 Mercy Corps Scotland 24,583,110 30,848,398 Mercy Corps an A for financial identified Mercy Corps as a Material Aid 55,965,950 48,598,887 Mercy Corps U.S. 175,436,932 158,463,970 Other Revenue 5,548,309 6,299,264 Total Program 202,657,925 191,402,596 efficiency in its May 2009 “top-performing nonprofit” that Subtotal: Private Support 119,651,693 93,523,855 Support Services rating guide. “insist[s] on serving up smart, Total Support and Revenue 212,217,882 186,932,694 General and Administration 19,144,523 16,952,176 bold solutions to seemingly Resource Development 11,227,580 10,862,768 Expenditures Total Support Services 30,372,103 27,814,944 intractable problems.” Mercy Program Services Loss 1,103,410 2,701,199 Humanitarian Assistance - Relief 80,906,437 69,783,468 Better Business Bureau Corps also was named a recipient Humanitarian Assistance - Recovery 27,992,530 26,044,813 Total Expenditures 234,133,438 221,918,739 of the magazine’s 2009 “Social Livelihood/Economic Development 36,393,225 39,163,801 Net 9,821,505 1,655,192 Mercy Corps meets all Civil Society 19,320,531 16,518,950 20 of the Better Business Enterprises of the Year” award for Health 10,824,209 6,952,938 starting a bold banking initiative Subtotal: Program Services 175,436,932 158,463,970 Bureau’s standards for charity Support Services accountability. that could pull millions of people General and Administration 17,088,020 15,667,506 out of poverty in Indonesia. Resource Development 10,685,425 9,992,856 Subtotal: Support Services 27,773,445 25,660,362 Loss 1,103,410 2,701,199

Total Expenditures 204,313,787 186,825,531

Increase in Net Assets 7,904,095 107,163 Charity Navigator InterAction For six years in a row, Mercy Corps is a member of Balance Sheet InterAction, the largest coalition June 30, 2008 June 30, 2007 Material Aid Program Delivers the Goods Mercy Corps has been Assets awarded the four-star rating of America’s most reputable Cash and Investments 52,722,780 52,673,855 In 2008, Mercy Corps delivered materials – donated by international NGOs. We adhere to Receivables 16,827,271 20,639,849 corporations, non-profit organizations and individuals – to our for sound fiscal performance Inventories 14,076,568 11,816,341 from Charity Navigator, the InterAction’s financial and ethical Program-Related Investments 27,414,551 15,641,987 own programs and carefully selected partners in 30 countries. standards in our fundraising and Property and Equipment (net) 17,266,512 4,705,254 premier American charity Other 3,831,059 2,802,260 For instance, we provided medicines to hospitals in North evaluator. Only three percent program operations. Total Assets 132,138,741 108,279,546 Korea, computers to non-profits and schools in Mongolia, school of the rated charities have Liabilities and hygiene supplies to orphans and other vulnerable children in Payables and Other Liabilities 38,793,110 36,502,739 achieved this distinction. Deferred Revenue 21,727,123 25,656,274 Zimbabwe, and sports equipment to youth in Kosovo. The value Subordinated and Other Long Term Debt 6,434,218 1,137,489 Total Liabilities 66,954,451 63,296,502 of these donated materials totaled more than $59 million.

Net Assets Unrestricted 23,846,402 15,942,307 Temporarily Restricted 41,337,888 29,040,737 To view or download our financials, visit Total Net Assets 65,184,290 44,983,044 mercycorps.org/annual. Total Liabilities and Net Assets 132,138,741 108,279,546 40 41 Laura Finney Fund of the Leah, Zachary, Gilles & Elizabeth Martin Pollock Gift Fund of the Cornelia Stevens To Our Supporters: Thank You Schwab Charitable Fund Hannah Jones-Neuray Jim Martindale Fidelity Charitable Lee Stewart and Bruce Firestone Lyle Jones Linda Mason and Gift Fund Christopher Sherry Kevin Flanigan and Michele Joyce Roger Brown Jr. Jacqueline Post Scott and Jeanine Stice Mercy Corps’ message of hope inspired thousands of supporters around the world in 2008, Shauna McCarty Jack Jue Madden/Masson Family Steven Priest Bob and Barre Stoll Flanigan Francis W. Jump Fund of the Fidelity Joshua Ramo Jane and Peter Stowe resulting in record contributions from individuals, organizations, corporations, foundations and faith Joyce Flaschen Mark Kantor and Charitable Gift Fund Jeannine and Patricia Struckman communities. In all, private contributions totaled more than $63.6 million in cash and $56 million Patrick Fox Lawranne Stewart Christopher and Dennis Rampe Dr. Barbara Stuart and Fukushima Family Fund Katherine and Catherine Mathews Mark Raney and Dr. Richard Stuart in commodities and services. In addition, 135 volunteers and 120 interns in the U.S. and overseas of the Fidelity Charitable Gordon Keane Noelle and Dixie Wyckoff-Raney Hao Sun Gift Fund Sue and Scott Keane Christopher Mayhew Elizabeth Reece John and donated more than 6,000 hours of work. Your generosity in 2008 was inspiring. Without each one Simon Furie Thomas Keffer and Mary McClain Walter Reese Sandra Swinmurn Steven Fury and Lee Christie Beverly McColloch Michael and Morgan Sze of you, our work simply would not be possible. As we express our deep gratitude to you, we renew Nancy Lawton Jerry Kennelly Alan and Barbara Regan John Michael and David Gardner Neal and RuthAnn McCollom The Jennifer and Sean Viola Talbot our commitment to helping people around the world turn crisis into opportunity. Robert and Alene Gelbard Alissa Keny-Guyer Marcia and Reilly Family Fund of Helga Tarver Katharyn Gerlich Leslie Keyes David McCracken the Baton Rouge Area Lindsey Taylor Richard Gervais Yoo-hang H. Kim Brett and Foundation Susan Tenney To make a donation, join a monthly giving program or purchase Mercy Kits gifts, visit Leon and Erika Giles Thomas B. Klein Sophia McFadden Richard and Craig Thorn Ellen B. Godsall Donald and Janice Kline Christina M. Mcfarland Sharon Reuter Phillip A. Townsend mercycorps.org/give. Alexander and Dr. Stephen and Nancie S. McGraw Carolyn Richardson Fred and Judy Triggs Jeannette Golitzin Mary Eileen Knoff Noreen McGraw Chieng C.B. Ronnie Tsang Family Fund Mark and Nancy Gordon William C. Kohler Adam McKay and Libby Rouse Gordon Tuttle We make every effort to spell your name and list your organization correctly. If you notice an error, please contact our Dr. Gerald Goudreau and Ted and Virginia Koontz Shira Piven Elena Rozier Barbara Tylka development office at 800.292.3355, ext 339. Rev. Mary Goudreau Phillip and Mary Krueger The Carolyn McKnight The Gordon Russell Fund, Robert and Cathy Utne Allen and Jane Grossman Quercus and Fund of the Equity an advised fund of Maureen Valdini D.L. Gundle Carolyn Kulog Foundation Silicon Valley Jerome and Donald Guthrie Ronni Lacroute Fund Kevin Means Community Foundation Mary Vascellaro Founders Circle Stephen and Janet Blake Erika Conner Derry Family Fund of John and Pauline Haase of the Cornell University Phillippe and The Sample Family Christine and Richard J. and Gloria L. Robert Connon and the Fidelity Charitable Anne Hale & Arthur W. Foundation Marian Meany Maurice and Luly Samuels David Vernier The Founders Circle members recognized Borden Fund of The Kim Lan Simmons Gift Fund Johnson Fund of The Tracy Lamblin Christina Mednick Kevin and Corinne Sayler Henry P. Vigil and here gave $5,000 or more during our 2008 Minneapolis Foundation Karen and Jess Cook John Desiderio Community Foundation Leah and Ernest Lane Maurice Meslans and Scafidi Family Fund of Kathryn Remijan Gary Bottone Diane Costantino Leonard and for the National Capital Iola Larson Margaret Holyfield the Fidelity Charitable The Jean Vollum Fund of fiscal year (July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008). Georgiana Bowman Janna Crist Lou Jean DeVito Region Mark and Bob Metzler Gift Fund the Vanguard Charitable The Founders Circle Honorary Chair is Barbara Branner Margaret O. Cromwell Rocky and Julie Dixon David Hall Guadalupe Levine Mary Pat Meyer Schamp Family Fund of Endowment Program Pat Boone. B. Marie Britten Family Fund of the Peter and Tanya Dobyns Yvon Hamel Hugh & Mair Lewis Elizabeth Miller The Oregon Community Kent Walker Larry and Diana Brown Baltimore Community Phyllis and Frank Dobyns Carl and Cynthia Hammer Charitable Fund of the Ross and Jess Millikan Foundation The Todd and Ruth Fund, a donor advised Foundation Ralph and The Haney Foundation Community Foundation Anne Modarressi Eric Schamp Warren Fund of Schwab Stacy and Charles Aaron Silvia and Zubin Balsara fund of Christian Church Brian and Kristin Cronn Susan Doughton of the Fidelity Charitable for Southwest Heather Mullett Mark Schaures and Charitable Fund Rodney Addison The Tim and Nan Barfield Foundation Rich Curd Paul Dudley Hart and Gift Fund Washington Matthew Nadel Wendy Fujioka Schaures Dick and Pat Warren Anne Ader Fund of the Baton Scott and Mary Brown Barbara Curry Jane Alford Hart Harold and Jonathan and Millicent Naito Merry Schmidt Michael and Diane Weber Kimberly and Dan Agnew Rouge Area Foundation Thomas Bruggere The John and Anne Curtis Benjamin Duell Elizabeth Hansen Anne Liebergall Samuel and Ruth Neff Chris Schroeder and John Weiser Sara Ahluwalia Estate of Carl Bassler Margaret S. Bryant Charitable Trust Fund of Bill and Karen Early David Heinlein Community Investments Raymond C. Nelson Sandy Coburn Daniel Welch Ileana Celia Aiello Claire and Bruce Bean Joy and Steven Bunson Schwab Charitable Fund Don Eaton Jack and Fund of Tides Robert and Jamie K. Schulke John Weldon Norma Alberthal Suzanne and Bunson Family Fund of Carrie and Tom Cusack Lindsay Eberts and Sharon Herschend Foundation on the Melinda Newell David Schultze Leonard Wheeler George and John Beaumont Goldman Sachs Gives Tracey D’Angelo Patti Paxton-Eberts Juliane Heyman Fund recommendation of John Nitardy Aaron Schwindt Estate of Clara Wildenhof Sharon Alexander Celeste Becker Gary Burgoine Deborah and John and of the Fidelity Charitable Rebecca Liebman and Jennifer Noland Jim Scott and James Williams and Ann Allen Elizabeth Becker Brian and Peggy Busacker Thomas Davidson M. Dee Eisenhauer Gift Fund Charles Stephens Marilyn M. Norfolk Elaine Robin Marc Wenderoff Stan Amy and David E. and Mary C. Tim and Linda Butler Gary and Sharon Davis Debra Ekman Wesley and Diane Hickey Holly Lind Barbara O’Malley Cynthia Sears Richard and Christy Eugenis Becker Fund of Richard and Aila Dawe Sara Elkin Richard Hill Nancy Lindborg Velva Osborn Bijan Shahir and Deanne Wilson Jon Anastasio The Oregon Community Margaret Byess The Dawson Family Jennifer Ellestad Kenneth Hirsh Patricia Lipscomb Richard and Karen Ramus Julia Winiarski Anita L. Archer, Ph.D. Foundation Duncan and Charitable Fund of Edmund and Joanne Ellis Kenneth Ho Raghu Loganathan Kathleen Ossey David M. Sill Lucy Winton Rob Arnott Patricia Bedford Cynthia Campbell the Vanguard Charitable John Ellis Nancy Hoagland Robert Lundeen Vasileios Papathanakos Mark G. Simmer and John and Meagan Wise Ater Family Fund of Alexander C. Begg Lisa Castro Endowment Program Jeannette Smith Eppler George Hoashi Thomas Lunifeld and William and Julie Parish Margaret C. Kalkowski Lin Xu The Oregon Community Joshua & Anita Indy Chakrabarti Donna and Steve Deacon Charitable Trust The Caroline Stephens Mina Hakami David Park Charitable Fund of the Wenwei Yang Foundation Bekenstein Charitable Jimmy B. Chan David Dee and The Ericksen Charitable Holt Fund of the Elisabeth and Peter Lyon Janet and Augustin Parker Fidelity Charitable David Yazbek The Sally and Gordon Fund, a donor advised Lawrence Chan Patricia Callahan Fund of the Northwest Community Foundation Grace Lyu-Volckhausen Travis Penn Gift Fund Ihor and Sandra Zakaluzny Atkinson Fund of fund of Combined Jeremy Chit Chau The Thomas and Bettie Christian Community of New Jersey Peter Macdissi The Palmer & June Lisa Skylar Melissa Waggener Zorkin Schwab Charitable Fund Jewish Philanthropies Harry Cheung Deen Charitable Gift Foundation John Holt Carter and Peterson Family Robert J. Small Charitable and Kristo Zorkin Ray and Jean Auel Marjorie Belluschi Paula Clancy Fund of The T. Rowe Peter and Cyrese Erickson Andrew and Jennifer MacNichol Charitable Fund of Fund of the Fidelity Suzan Zoukis n George and Stephen Belmont Ty and Leigh Cobb Price Program for John Failor and Caroline Huddart Carla Main and Brad West the Vanguard Charitable Charitable Gift Fund Nobuko Azumano Estate of Frederick Steven and Kathleen Charitable Giving Cheryl Mansfield Nita Ing Chris and Endowment Program Anne W. Smith and Stephen Bachelder Eugene Beltram Coleman Charitable De La Rosa-Tumonis Donald and June Farries Susheela Jayapal and Melody Malachowsky Thomas Peterson John T. Goodhue Jr. and Kathryn Tucker- Harold Berliner Fund of the Fidelity Family Charitable Fund Fiddes-Talmadge Family Bradley Miller Jonathan Male Anne Petter Colin Smith Bachelder Richard Bingham Charitable Gift Fund of Citi GIFT Charitable Fund, a donor Parker and Dominic and Tracy Pietila Preeti Sodhi-Francis Shanda Bahles Broughton & Mary Bishop Virginia Coleman Joe and Randee Dellaselva advised fund of The U.S. Catherine Johnstone LeeAnne Mancini Judy Pigott Margaret Stavropoulos Ira and Stacey Bahr Family Advised Fund Truman and Kristin Collins The Gun and Tom Denhart Charitable Gift Trust Jessie Jonas Charitable The Mancini Family Martin and Mary Pointon Judy and Len and Mary Baker of the Community Mary Compton Family Fund of the Kathleen Fielder and Fund of the Fidelity Brian Maney Estate of Bernice Polchow Richard Steigerwald William E. Baldwin Foundation for South Jerry Conley Vanguard Charitable Richard Gay Charitable Gift Fund Edward Markusen Annette Steiner Robert and Julia Ball west Washington Endowment Program 42 43 Giron Legacy Society The Campaign for Mercy Corps The Giron Legacy Society recognizes donors who support The Campaign for Mercy Corps is the first capital campaign in our history. It is vital to our future because it will give Mercy Corps through estate planning. It was established in 2003 in us the independence to apply our proven approach to the toughest challenges of our generation. Our campaign to honor of Oscar “Tito” Giron, one of Mercy Corps’ earliest employees, raise $37.5 million in private and public funds focuses on three initiatives: a unified global engagement program, a new a Guatemalan pediatrician who established a village health program global headquarters and a fund for emergency response and social innovation. Each of these initiatives will help in Honduras. You can be the change beyond your lifetime by including Mercy Corps build a more stable and independent financial and programmatic base, and together they will allow Mercy Corps in your estate plans. Your legacy gift is a testament Mercy Corps to address the great challenges of the 21st century. For more information, contact Johanna Thoeresz, Vice to the lasting value you place in our work. For information, call our President for Development, at 503.595.0532 or [email protected]. planned giving office at 800.292.3355, ext 368. We would like to thank the following private donors for their generous support of The Campaign for Mercy Corps:

Barbara Andersen Greg and Suzanne and Alavi Foundation Paul Dudley Hart and JELD-WEN Linda Mason and Shauna Smith Jay A. and Jan Barber Stella Marie Jeffrey Charles Schirmer Jay A. and Jan Barber Jane Alford Hart Leah, Zachary, Gilles & Roger Brown, Jr. Starbucks Matching Marie and Joseph Barca Gordon Jones Mary Ann Schmidt Brot and Kelley Bishop Bill and Karen Early Hannah Jones-Neuray S. Mignon Mazique and Gifts Program Linda Barone Craig Kelly Betty Schnorbus Joy and Steven Bunson The Jack and Marie Kathryn Kelley James Rue Bob and Barre Stoll Alan Baxter Keith and Ann Kendrick Dr. D. J. Schupbach Duncan and Eiting Foundation Neal and Meyer Memorial Trust Thomas Hacker Architects Marion Berg Michael and Sharon Kerns Tom Shanahan Cynthia Campbell Barnes and Molly Ellis Alissa Keny-Guyer Microsoft Matching Alisha Turpin Patricia Bernardi Georgia Koehler Helen June Shaver Carl and Carolyn Donald Geddes and The Kresge Foundation Gift Program Henry P. Vigil and Joan Bertrand Stephen Koeune Nancy Shire Christoferson Mona Todd Robert Krippaehne Duane Minor and Kathryn Remijan Carole Anne and Alma Krivonen Dorene M. Shores Nathan Cummings Glumac Lane Powell PC Karen Stohler-Minor Philippe and Kate Villers Eugene Best Helen Lais Robert L. Smith and Foundation Inc. Mark and Nancy Gordon Matt Leeding A.L. Miller and A.L. Morris Waggener Edstrom Gerald Boarino John and Cynthia Lammers Adriana Huyer Christine Deal Allen and Jane Grossman Lemelson Foundation Samuel T. & Mary K. Naito Worldwide Inc. Barbara Branner Kenneth C. Lang Michele Spencer The Gun and Tom Denhart Nancy and Charlie Hales Lisa Lindborg Foundation Walsh Construction Gail Broderick Mary Sue and Robert and Family Fund of the The Heartspring Nancy Lindborg Robert and Melinda Newell Roben White Joyce and Rex Carter Carl Lauersen Deborah Stavig Vanguard Charitable Foundation of the Fidelity Wakefield and Daniel and Cherry O’Neill Anna Young and Marie Clark Barnett Lipton and Peter and Karen Streit Endowment Program Charitable Gift Fund Sandy Mack Richard and Nick Macdonald Lisa and Tom Cohen Deborah Duncan Katherine Sutherland Peter and Tanya Dobyns Heffernan Family Trust Carter and Kathleen Ossey Melissa Waggener Zorkin Frances Collier Douglas and Jenny Taylor Phyllis and Frank Dobyns Keith Hutjens Jennifer MacNichol Pat Boone Foundation Inc. and Kristo Zorkin Joe Collver Linda MacGregor Margaret Tompkins Sho and Loen Dozono Kristen Ivory The Mancini Family Clark Scholl Anonymous (3) n John Condon Loretta Macha Kathryn Turay Joan Corcoran Dominic and David and Emmy Walsh Dr. Robert Crooks and LeeAnne Mancini Kathy Warner Ms. Sami Tucker Julie and William Martin Catherine A. Webb Andrew Davis Ronald and LuAnn Martin Wiley and De Vera Wenger Gary and Sharon Davis Barbara May Catherine and Aila Dawe Jules and Lisa Mazzei Norman West David and Joanne Deaton Linda McAllister Alison Wiley and The Phoenix Fund Margaret Denny Noreen McGraw Thor Hinckley Norma and Donald Dody Richard and Tonia Willekes The Phoenix Fund gathers private seed capital to stimulate economic Kimberly and Dan Agnew Brian Maney Bill and Karen Early Mary Montgomery Elizabeth and Brian Willis recovery via start-up projects in some of the world’s poorest George and Thomas Peterson Beth Erickson Pierr Morgan Sister Mary Wiskirchen, Sharon Alexander The Renaissance Julia Field Camila Morrison BSCD countries. Through for-profit angel-investing principles, the fund is Shanda Bahles Foundation Jeannette Foss Mary Ann Myers Bob and Joyce Wolcott designed to encourage high-risk/high-reward ventures in communities Len and Mary Baker Roy H. & Natalie C. Peter Fremgen Samuel and Ruth Neff Karen Wong Scott and Mary Brown Roberts Foundation Donn and Jan Gassaway Eileen Nelson Anonymous (21) n recovering from war or social upheaval. Since its inception in 2004, Thomas Bruggere The Gordon Russell Fund, Leo and Marti Gilleran Raymond C. Nelson the Phoenix Fund has made grants to Mercy Corps microenterprise Rocky and Julie Dixon an advised fund of the Clarence and Sylvia Gillett Peter and programs that enhance the livelihoods of local participants in China, Richard Gervais Silicon Valley Community Laura Good Sherry Ohotnicky The Holzman Foundation Foundation Dr. Gerald Goudreau and Daniel W. and Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, The Angela Jackson Fred Trullinger Rev. Mary Goudreau Cherry O’Neill Nepal and Serbia. In 2008 we funded 11 projects. Donors give a Fund of The Minneapolis Jerome and David and Ardath Griffin Pat Opdyke Foundation Mary Vascellaro minimum of $10,000, and they often participate in project selection Kathryn Hamilton-Cook Margaret G. Orlett Thomas Keffer and Anonymous (2) n Xyra Harper-Cann Susan and Donald Parry and provide guidance to project managers. To find out more, contact Lee Christie Manuel Hernandez Larry and Sheryl Pennings Danielle Wheeler, Phoenix Fund Director, at 503.450.1976 or Kind Heart Free Spirit Norman Higginson Ronald Peterson Foundation Elizabeth Hoskins David and Shirley Pollock [email protected]. James Houston Sheila Preston Comerford Jeff and Debby Howell Fike Rehman Marianne Hubbard Nancy L. Risser We offer our profound gratitude to the following individuals and Karen Jacks Mary Rogers foundations that supported the Phoenix Fund during our 2008 Tim and Jan Jaskoski Doug and Leslie Jaslove Paula Saintignon fiscal year.

44 45 Foundations and Corporations Goldman Sachs Relief McMenamins Crystal Rosengarten-Horowitz To Our Partners: Thank You Fund, a donor-advised Ballroom Fund The following foundations and corporations fund of the Goldman Meng Hannan Schultz Family Foundation contributed $5,000 or more during our 2008 Mercy Corps multiplies its resources and the impact of its work through a growing global network Sachs Philanthropy Construction Inc. The Schwab Fund for fiscal year. Fund Mentor Graphics Charitable Giving of partnerships with outstanding public, private and humanitarian organizations and the generosity Goodfellow Fund Foundation Schwindt & Company Google Matching Meyer Memorial Trust The Seattle Foundation of forward-thinking foundations and benefactors. We offer our gratitude to the partners listed here. Gifts Program Micron Technology Sei Giving Fund Google.org Fund of Tides Foundation Inc. Anne & Eli Shapira Foundation Microsoft Matching Gift Charitable Foundation Ability Physical Therapy Franklin Conklin Goulston & Storrs Program Sherwin Williams and Fitness Foundation Greater Kansas City James E. and Lila G. Miller So-Hum Foundation Strategic Partners Mercy Corps Microfinance Network Adobe Foundation Fund, Cordaid Community Foundation Charitable Trust The Spurlino Foundation The following companies and organizations In the 10 years since it began offering microfinance services, Mercy an advised fund of Corning Incorporated GreaterGood Foundation MKM Foundation The Standard Corps and its partner institutions have achieved a remarkable record, Silicon Valley Foundation The Greenbrier Mule Family Foundation Starbucks Coffee are current Mercy Corps partners and Community Foundation Countrywide Cares Companies Music T’s Company co-investors in large-scale, strategic disbursing more than $1.4 billion in loans to more than 1.3 million Adobe Systems Inc. Nicole Laurel Cuddy Grizzard Family Samuel T. & Mary K. Naito The Starbucks Foundation clients while maintaining outstanding repayment rates – in most Matching Gift Program Foundation Foundation Foundation Starcite Inc. initiatives. We thank them for their vision and Aidmatrix Foundation Inc. Nathan Cummings The Heartspring Nau Inc. Stoel Rives LLP commitment. cases, higher than 98 percent. It should come as no surprise to those Alatech Healthcare Foundation Inc. Foundation of the Network For Good Stussy familiar with the world of microfinance that more than half of our Products Dahlgren Footwear Fidelity Charitable Nike Europe, Middle East The Sudan Aid Fund of the Alavi Foundation Davis Wright Gift Fund and Africa Community Foundation Allianz Nike clients have been women – women whose dreams of a better life for Ali Budiardjo, Nugroho, Tremaine LLP Heffernan Family Trust Nike Foundation of Western Best Buy ONE Campaign themselves, their children and their families are coming true thanks Reksodiputro DHL The Holzman Foundation Nike Inc. Massachusetts The Boeing Company Open Society Institute/ Amgen Foundation Dobyns Educational Baker Hughes Foundation Nike Taiwan SurveyMonkey.com BP Emerging Consumer Soros to their own hard work. Working in challenging environments from AMRO Foundation Foundation The Charles Evans North Carolina Hillel Paul & Patricia Taylor Markets Group Pax World Management Afghanistan to Guatemala, we have developed a network of a dozen APCO Worldwide Druzianich Family Hughes Memorial Foundation Foundation Cadbury Corporation retail microfinance institutions. Most have evolved to commercial Armani Exchange Charitable Foundation Foundation Inc. North Star Foundation Tazo Tea Carbon Clear Reach Out to Asia/Qatar Arrow Electronics Inc. DSJJ Fund of Tides IBM Service Center Northern Trust Bank Texas Instruments China Foundation for Foundation viability. And in building them, Mercy Corps has gained invaluable Automatic Data Foundation Ideal Mobile Home Novartis Institute for Thomas Hacker Architects Poverty Alleviation Realizing Rights practical understanding of the financial needs of the urban and rural Processing Inc. E. Oliver Capital Community Functional Genomics Tides Foundation Clinton Global Initiative Roshan Telecom Bank of America Group LLC Louise H. and David S. Inc. Tiger Asia Management, Cordaid Development Company working poor. Matching Gifts Earnest Partners LLC Ingalls Foundation OdysseyRe Foundation LLC DHL Afghanistan Baumann Foundation eBay Foundation Intel Employees Recent The W. O’Neil Towne Foundation The Jack and Marie Eiting Stichting Hivos-Triodos Agency for Finance in Community Health and Partner Microcredit Fletcher Bay Foundation Echo Geophysical College Graduates Foundation Inc. Trizec Foundation Bank Kosovo (AFK), Kosovo Microcredit Project, Foundation (Partner), BBC International, LLC Corporation Network Oregon Catholic Press The Tufenkian ESI Design Taiwan International Ariana Financial Services Guatemala Bosnia Biamp Systems Margaret Watt Edwards Intel Foundation The Oregon Community Foundation Inc. The Bill & Melinda Gates Cooperation and (AFS), Afghanistan IMON International, Poverty Alleviation in Blue Moon Fund Foundation Interface Engineering Foundation Two Sigma Investments Foundation Development Fund Asian Credit Fund (ACF), Tajikistan the Tumen River Area Employees Eileen Fisher Inc. International Senior Pacific Rim LLC IJMA3/Union of Tazo Tea and the Kazakhstan Kompanion Financial (PATRA), China Community Fund of The Jack and Marie Eiting Lawyers Project Shipbrokers Inc. Vanguard Charitable Arab ICT Associations Starbucks Foundation n Bank Andara, Indonesia Group, Kyrgyzstan XacBank, Mongolia The Boeing Company Foundation Jack’s Overhead Door Perkins Coie Endowment Program ImagineNations Triodos Bank Borshud, Tajikistan Mercy Corps Northwest, BP International Ltd. Patricia Eiting Foundation JELD-WEN Pratt and Larson W. Glen Boyd Charitable ING Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. United States Bristol-Myers Squibb Eli Lilly and Company JustGive Ceramics Inc. Foundation International Finance The Whole Planet Foundation Foundation K&L Gates, LLP The William L. Price Waggener Edstrom Corporation Foundation n Broadcom Corporation Ericsson Inc. Kimberly-Clark Matching Charitable Foundation Worldwide Linked Foundation Buchalter Foundation The Martin Fabert Gift Center ProLogis Foundation Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club NetHope Bungie LLC Foundation Kinco International Inc. The Prudential Foundation Foundation Calvert Foundation Farleigh Wada Witt Organizations Kind Heart Free Spirit Qualcomm Walsh Construction Co. Carruthers Inc. Farmers Insurance Group Foundation QualityHub Inc. Washington Mutual The following organizations gave $5,000 or more during our 2008 Cartier Fenwick & West LLP Kinnie Family Foundation R. L. Fortney Washington Mutual fiscal year. Caruso Produce Inc. Fidelity Charitable The Kresge Foundation Management Inc. Foundation Cascade Rubber Gift Fund Lane Powell PC Realty Advisors Inc. Western Union Foundation Products Inc. Firstgiving Inc. Latham & Watkins, LLP Red Crane Foundation WET Design The Church in Aurora Global Impact Self Realization Fellowship Charis Fund Fish & Richardson PC Leatherman Tool Group The Rejuvenation Willkie Farr & Gallagher The Brothers and Sisters The Islamic Cultural Church Charity Folks Flir Systems Inc. Lemelson Foundation Community Fund of LLP of Charity Center of Northern Sisters of Saint Dominic ChevronTexaco Flora Family Foundation Lex Mundi Pro Bono Schwab Charitable Fund Working Assets/CREDO Castro Valley High School California Small Change Global Fund Friedman Family Foundation The Renaissance Grantmaking Fund of Church World Service The Kindergarten Unit Inc. Marianne Sufrin Trust CHL Administration Inc. Foundation Light for the Way Foundation Tides Foundation Combined Federal Lutheran World Relief Tufts University Citi Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Lovett-McLuckie Family Revolver USA WWW Foundation Campaign Medical Teams Union for Reform Judaism Coastal Construction Foundation Trust Riverbed Technology Inc. Wyss Foundation Disaster Resource International Unitarian Universalist Corporation GE Foundation MAC AIDS Fund Roy H. & Natalie C. Yum! Brands Foundation Network METAD Fellowship of Corvallis Coffee Bean International Genentech Foundation Freddie Mac Foundation Roberts Foundation Zlatne Uste Inc. n Episcopal Relief and Middle East Children’s United Way of the Cohn Family Foundation David McAntony Gibson Marin Community Robidoux Foundation Development Institute Inc. Columbia-Willamette Columbia Sportswear Foundation Foundation Roke Foundation Free Evangelic Church The Moving Center School Watchdog 15 Year Company Gilman Private Family Martin Family Foundation Romulo Mabanta Full Gospel Providence Health System Charitable Lead Trust Comfort Aid International Foundation McKenzie River Gathering Buenaventura Sayoc & Gee How Oak Tin Sacramento Valley World Vision n The Commonwealth Fund GlobalGiving Foundation De Los Angeles Association Chapter of California Glumac Credit Union League

46 47 Mercy Corps Leadership

Board of Directors Board of Ambassadors Steve Mitchell, Country Leadership Senator Mark O. Hatfield, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi Chief Financial Officer Afghanistan: Honorary Chair William Baldwin Karen Scriven, Christine Mulligan Assistant Vice President, Linda Mason, Chair Diana Dajani Bosnia and Herzegovina: Development Marko Nisandzic Robert D. Newell, Sho and Loen Dozono Treasurer Johanna Thoeresz, Central African Republic: Bill Early Vice President, John Hanson Dr. Jay A. Barber, Jr. Development Reverend Joseph T. China: Chen Yi Mei Anita Bekenstein Eldridge Jim White, Vice President, Colombia: Gary Burniske Scott Brown Jack Huang Program Operations Democratic Republic of Gun Denhart Ambassador Swanee Anna Young, Director of the Congo: Luke King In Memoriam Phyllis Dobyns Hunt Strategy and Learning Ethiopia: Simon O’Connell Mercy Corps pays tribute Jock Encombe Bianca Jagger to Mohamud Osman, its Georgia: Irakli Kasrashvili Mark Gordon Andrew Konigsberg Program Leadership program officer and valued Guatemala: colleague in Southern Anne McCarthy Regional Program Allen Grossman Borys Chinchilla Somalia, who was killed Directors PHOTOS: cover – Sri Lanka, Thatcher Cook; page 1 – (background image) Kyrgyzstan, About the Production of Neal Keny-Guyer Walter Russell Mead Honduras: Chet Thomas in Jamame, Somalia, in Michael Bowers, This Report Ned Lamont Laurence A. Shadek November 2008. Mohamud Colin Spurway; Sudan, Rodrigo Ordóñez; Lebanon, Cassandra Nelson; Sudan, Linda Balkans, Central Asia/ India: John Strickland and Victoria Stack managed our Southern Mason; page 2 – China, Thatcher Cook; page 3 – China, Thatcher Cook; Afghanistan, This year, for the first time, we have not produced Nancy Lindborg Caucasus, China, Usmaan Ahmad Somalia Livelihoods a print version of our annual report. In light of Rick Little Nohad A. Toulan Mongolia Indonesia: Recovery Program, which Mercy Corps; Gaza, Thatcher Cook; page 4 – Ethiopia, Geoff Oliver Bugbee; Colombia, Sean Granville-Ross the current economy, and in keeping with our Mike Maerz William Harvey Wise Kathy Fry, Latin America helped people increase Miguel Samper; Sudan, Rodrigo Ordóñez; page 5 – Afghanistan, Miguel Samper; Iraq: Will Lynch their income while building ongoing commitment to fiscal efficiency and David Mahoney Nizar Zakka David Holdridge, page 6 – India, Joni Kabana; page 7 – Uganda, Jeremy Barnicle; Myanmar, Jeremy Middle East Jordan: David Brigham vital infrastructure for their donor accountability, we are making every effort Daniel W. O’Neill communities. Mohamud Barnicle; Afghanistan, Cassandra Nelson; page 10 – Indonesia, David Snyder; page Senior Team Diane Johnson, South Asia Kenya: Mads Frilander to reduce our expenses wherever possible. The Henry P. Vigil will be sorely missed. 11 – (background image) China, Thatcher Cook; Kosovo, David Snyder; Zimbabwe, Neal Keny-Guyer, Matthew Lovick, East and Kosovo: fact that our decision is also the environmentally Philippe Villers Cassandra Nelson; Mongolia, Thatcher Cook; page 13 – (background image) Chief Executive Officer Southern Africa Cathy Rothenberger Mohamud Mohamed friendly one underscores our sense that this is Melissa Waggener Zorkin Osman Nancy Lindborg, President Phil Oldham, West and Kyrgyzstan: Afghanistan, Cassandra Nelson; Nepal, Joni Kabana; Tajikistan, Thatcher Cook; page the right move at the right time. We have created May 4, 1963 – Central Africa Catherine Brown 15 – Afghanistan, George Devendorf; page 17 – Afghanistan, Cassandra Nelson; Daniel W. O’Neill, Founder November 9, 2008 two electronic versions of this vital communication East Asia Advisory Craig Redmond, Lebanon: Steven Haley Jeremy Barnicle, Kyrgyzstan, Jason Sangster; Azerbaijan, Thatcher Cook; page 18 – Pakistan, Jackie Council Southeast Asia piece: one that’s designed for easy reading on Vice President, Liberia: Terry Dowey Sho and Loen Dozono Lee; page 21 – (background image) Iraq, Jacob Colie; China, Norman Ng; Honduras, computer screens, and the other that’s designed Marketing and Fernando Soares, Mongolia: Geoff Oliver Bugbee; page 23 – Iraq, Jacob Colie; page 25 – (background image) David and Shirley Pollock Communications Mercy Corps Europe Dominic Graham for ease of printing; while we encourage our Jim Rue Landrum Bolling, Myanmar: Michael Gabriel China, Jackie Lee; China, Thatcher Cook; Serbia, David Snyder; page 26 – China, readers to save paper, we recognize that in some Director at Large Technical Directors Nepal: Josh De Wald Thatcher Cook; page 29 – (background image) Somalia, Daniel Gerstle; Indonesia, cases a printed copy is necessary. We welcome Mercy Corps Europe Chip Carter, Ruth Allen, Niger: Christy Collins David Snyder; Lebanon, Joy Portella; page 31 – Somalia, Daniel Gerstle; page 33 – your feedback on this decision as well as on other Board of Trustees Chief Information Officer Community Mobilization, North Korea (background image) Sudan, Henry McInnes; Sudan, Miguel Samper; Sudan, Rodrigo matters related to our annual report. Mary Chaffin, Governance, Jock Encombe, Chairman (Democratic People’s Please email your comments to General Counsel Partnerships Ordóñez; page 34 – Sudan, Miguel Samper; page 38 – Jordan, David Snyder; page George Menzies LLB, Republic of Korea): [email protected]. Company Secretary George Devendorf, Penny Anderson, Stephen Claborne 39 – China, Thatcher Cook; Tajikistan, Jason Sangster; Ethiopia, Geoff Oliver Bugbee; Vice President, Food Security For PDFs of this annual report, please visit Barry Ayre Pakistan: Joanna Walshe page 49 – Indonesia, Thatcher Cook. Global Engagement Annie Bertrand, Youth mercycorps.org/annual. Lady Djemila Cope Philippines: William Diaz Bill Farrell, Vice President, Jim Jarvie, Climate Change Rear Admiral Michael Program Development Somalia: Abdi Mohamud For More Information Gregory, OBE Jeff Jones, MicroMentor Karen Doyle Grossman, Sri Lanka: Paul Armour Mercy Corps Mercy Corps Our Mission Myriam Khoury, Neal Keny-Guyer Vice President, Sudan: New Initiatives Global Headquarters European Headquarters Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty Stephen Hampson Social Innovations Richard Haselwood Sharon Morris, 3015 SW First Avenue 40 Sciennes and oppression by helping people build secure, Heather Hanson, Syria: Sarah Ferris Paul Dudley Hart Conflict Management Portland, OR 97201 Edinburgh EH9 1NJ productive and just communities. Director, Public Affairs Tajikistan: Kathleen Graham-Harrison Keith Polo, Phone: 800.292.3355 Scotland, UK Paul Dudley Hart, Brady Westerman The Very Reverend Dr. Agriculture Livelihoods 503.796.6800 Phone: +44.131.662.5160 Senior Vice President Timor-Leste: James Harkness, KCVO, Susan Romanski, Credits Mervyn Lee, Umer Hazrat Khan Fax: 503.796.6844 Fax: +44.131.662.6648 CB, OBE, DD Disaster Risk Reduction Writer/Editor: Bija Gutoff Executive Director, [email protected] [email protected] Nancy Lindborg Uganda: Darius Radcliffe Creative Services Manager: Jennifer Dillan Mercy Corps Europe Gretchen Shanks, Design, Tom Murray Monitoring, Evaluation USA, Mercy Corps NW: mercycorps.org mercycorps.org.uk Designer: Julie Wheeler, Strongrrl Randy Martin, John Haines The Honorable Simon Director, Global Sarah Ward, Contributors: Jeremy Barnicle, Roger Burks, Scott Emergency Operations Market Development West Bank/Gaza: Faith Danforth, Margaret Denny, Bob Ham, Andrew Dwonch © 2009 Mercy Corps. All rights reserved. Mignon Mazique, [Open], Financial Services Lisa Hoashi, Phil Ottum, Dan Sadowsky. Zimbabwe: Rob Maroni n 48 Executive Counselor [Open], Health 49 “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

—Mahatma Gandhi