Editing Mercy Corps (section)

== History ==
Originally established as the Save the Refugee Fund in 1979 to provide first hand post-conflict relief after the [[Cambodian genocide]] under the [[Pol Pot]] regime, the organization has since expanded its mandate to deliver humanitarian assistance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theglobaljournal.net/article/view/960/|title=10 – Mercy Corps {{!}} The Global Journal|website=theglobaljournal.net|language=en|access-date=2018-02-20}}</ref> In 1982, the organization's founders, [[Ellsworth Culver]] and Dan O'Neill, chose the name of Mercy Corps to represent the broader international activities of the organization that has since been focusing on delivering durable, long-term solutions to a range of humanitarian and development issues.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.mercycorps.org/about-us/our-history|title=Our history|date=2011-08-18|work=Mercy Corps|access-date=2018-02-20}}</ref> The organization has been present in varying locations at different times – cumulatively, it reports to have delivered humanitarian assistance in 122 countries.<ref name=":0" />

Mercy Corps delivered its first development program in [[Honduras]] in 1982. The program led to the establishment of the non-profit organization Project Global Village/Proyecto Aldea Global (PAG) in 1984 with a number of initiatives focused on development issues such as "health & [[HIV/AIDS]] prevention, [[domestic violence]], education, agro-industrial development, [[microcredit]]s, environmental development & infrastructure."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://worldaccord.org/pag-honduras/|title=Project Global Village (PAG) – Honduras – World Accord|work=World Accord|access-date=2018-02-21|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paghonduras.org/about-pag/history/|title=History – Proyecto Aldea Global|website=www.paghonduras.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-21}}</ref> In the next decade following the formation of Mercy Corps, the organization would gradually expand its mandates into the broader international arena, stationing in countries including [[Afghanistan]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Jordan]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], [[Kosovo]], [[North Korea]], [[Republic of North Macedonia|North Macedonia]], [[China]], [[Sudan]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], and [[Haiti]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief|last=Statler|first=Matthew|publisher=Sage Publications|pages=413–414}}</ref>

Mercy Corps incorporated the [[Conflict Management Group]] founded by Roger Fisher in 2004. Three years later, it also moved to incorporate [[NetAid]] seeking to broaden its scope of youth engagement in fighting global poverty.

Its programs have gradually gained structural and facilitating consistency throughout the course of the organization's development, ranging from long-term market system development programs, such as the Resilient Communities Program in [[Mongolia]] that would last until 2019, to short-term emergency response programs, such as the organization's post-disaster relief initiatives in [[Puerto Rico|Puerto-Rico]] after [[Hurricane Maria]] in the months following September 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mercycorps.org.mn/beta/index.php/en/projects/rcp|title=RCP|website=mercycorps.org.mn|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mercycorps.org/articles/united-states/quick-facts-hurricane-marias-effect-puerto-rico|title=Quick facts: Hurricane Maria's effect on Puerto Rico|date=2018-01-19|work=Mercy Corps|access-date=2018-03-08}}</ref>