International

While in the first few weeks we were maybe wondering when we would go back to “normal”, we are starting to see that this pandemic is changing us and the world,

COVID-19 is bringing people closer and is building community because suddenly our individualism and isolation is imposed and forced.

At its best, community development transforms people through an exchange of worldviews…

The poorest of the poor may experience all these nine causes simultaneously. My heart aches with the thought of it.

In December 2019 Operation Mercy closed our project office in Tehran, Iran. We enjoyed many years of fruitful collaboration with our Iranian partners and the government,

As the director of Operation Mercy there were two things that made my job particularly strange.

Any organisation which uses public funding to achieve its aims and objectives is bound by law to adhere to certain ‘Accounting and Reporting Standards’ – both in the countries where the funds are raised and in the countries where the funds are expensed.

Andrea Vogt became our Operational Mercy International Director in September 2019

It takes a community to do community development. We do complicated … but not alone.

I recently found this poem from Rumi online and it touched me deeply because I think that here we read what hospitality really means.

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