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MERCY CORPS SAVES AND IMPROVES LIVES IN THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST PLACES.
Poverty. Conflict.
Disaster. These are the global challenges that we’ve been responding to since
1979, helping more than 170 million people survive emergencies and build back
better. When a natural disaster strikes,
an economy collapses, or conflict erupts, Mercy Corps is there. We respond
immediately to meet urgent needs for food, water and shelter, and stay beyond
the emergency to partner with communities for their long-term recovery.
Our network of
experienced professionals in more than 40 countries literally speaks the
language — 93 percent of our field staff are from the country where they work —
giving them unique insight into what will move communities from relief to
recovery and ultimately toward resilience. We believe even in the world’s most challenging
places, people have the power to transform their own lives when they have the
right resources. Growing more food, earning higher incomes, advocating for
their needs — we leverage their local logic to pioneer innovative, sustainable
solutions that build stronger communities. Now, and for the future.
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Mercycorps in
Indonesia has strategies, which to improve community infrastructure, health,
resiliency and economic opportunities in Indonesia’s most challenging urban and
coastal areas. About half of all Indonesians live on less than a dollar a day.
Employment growth has been slower than population growth. Public services
remain inadequate by middle-income standards, and health indicators are poor. Our
work, in economic opportunity, we provide technical assistance, training and
financial services to microfinance institutions throughout the country. In health
sector, Mercycorps Indonesia raising awareness and supporting mothers to
practice and promote exclusive breastfeeding, addressing childhood malnutrition
through healthy, affordable food carts in every kind of place and improving
sanitation and hygiene in crowded urban areas with a mobile sludge removal
service. We also work in disaster preparedness, which is identifying and
mapping areas at risk and helping those communities plan, train and practice
how to respond when disasters occur, and maintaining a response team ready to
quickly deploy and provide immediate relief to survivors during the critical
first months after a disaster strikes.
Since 2009, exclusive
breastfeeding is an acknowledged and protected right of every mother and baby
in Indonesia, but today still about 4 out of every 10 children under five years
old are stunted, according to Basic Health Survey in 2013. In Jakarta Province
(DKI Jakarta), which has 5 municipal city and 1 region, 1 of 3 in the same age
group have grown up shorter than their peers. Despite the growing awareness
that exclusive breastfeeding for six months continued with breastfeeding and
adequate source food through the first two years of life would optimize growth
and development of children to their full potential, based on Lancet 2006, the
practice of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) are shadowed by significant raise in
infant formula milk factory marketing and bottle feeding over the years.
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