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In Bekaa Valley, Mercy Corps has distributed hygiene kits, tablets to purify water, buckets and jerry cans to refugees.
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Mercy Corps will be distributing over 6, 000 winter clothes and over 4, 000 vouchers for winter clothes in Bekaa this month.
CNN: Syrian refugees in Lebanon facing bitter winter
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Mercy Corps is also providing psychosocial support services to children and adolescents in the region, and has reached over 2, 000 beneficiaries to date.
CNN: Syrian refugees in Lebanon facing bitter winter
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The competition itself is run by Microsoft, drawing on expertise from Mercy Corps and The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.
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We have a team of 25 Mercy Corps staff who live and work in Gaza and they have been scouring the local market for any stock available.
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The region is accustomed to earthquakes, and locals have been taught to identify safe places in case of a tsunami, according to Sean Granville-Ross, the Mercy Corps country director for Indonesia.
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Anne Wood, director of Mercy Corps, one of the few non-governmental agencies still operating in Kandahar, said her agency was still trying to carry out field work as discreetly as possible.
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The program has already offered training in business fundamentals, social innovation, and leadership effectiveness to more than 100 emerging social enterprise leaders from Mercy Corps, Digital Divide Data, Save the Children, World Vision, and other organizations.
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Mercy Corps has managed to get two trucks of food aid into Gaza since the Israeli military operation started, but it has been a frustrating and extremely slow process to get the permissions from the Israeli authorities.
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