Gender Equality Sweden Project #30892

Partnering to build hope, capacity, and community

by Operation Mercy

Project Report | Jul 14, 2026
New Possibilities

By Linda Beadle | Communications Team

Farming in the Jordan Valley

For more than 30 years our Operation Mercy staff have been partnering with others to build hope, capacity, and community to transform lives, including our own. It requires long-term perseverance because change takes years to see.

One of our exciting projects that we haven't reported on much here is our Agricultural Cooperation for Development (AC4D) project in Jordan. This project is working within communities to support farmers with cost-effective technologies to aid in the management of the most pressing issues in the smallholder agriculture in the Middle East.

Over the last two years two young farmers have been using the strategy of “active deferment” with cover cropping, a technique that uses minimal irrigation water to rebuild soil structure, improve fertility, and reducing salinity stress, on low cost and highly saline land to bring previously unusable land into productive use for bananas and dates.

These young men are unique due to the fact that they are young, a rarity in a profession whose average age is over 60 across the globe. Their very public and very successful trials have loaned a lot of credibility to our farmer support program by demonstrating to all of the small farmers around them that the use of our deferment technique can be economically beneficial in situations not managed by foreigners and backed by foreign investment and expertise.

Thank you for your partnership that helps to ensure that these young farmers can be supported with strategies to improve the quality, quantity and price of their produce and support the populations that they feed.

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Mar 5, 2026
Our 2025 Impact Report is LIVE!

By Andrea Vogt | International Director Operation Mercy

Impact Report

Dear Operation Mercy community,

Can you imagine that Operation Mercy connects with 1,600 people a day across 10 countries, from Pakistan to Morocco?

For the first time, we asked our Country Directors not only how many participants were involved in their projects in 2025 — 53,872 — but also how often they connected with these individuals throughout the year. The answer: among those 53,872 people, we recorded 605,900 interactions. That makes more than 1,600 connections a day — amazing, isn’t it?

But we didn’t stop there. We also asked: how deep are these interactions? Are they simply a transfer of knowledge or aid given, or are they deep engagements that affect a person’s whole life?

We found that 46% of engagements were classified as deep, and 1% even as intensive. A further 13% were practical engagements, including vocational training, workshops, technical instruction, and coaching sessions.

If you would like to read more about these numbers — and the stories behind the transformational impact of Operation Mercy’s work — please check out our Impact Report using the link below.

You have helped us restore hope, build capacity, and strengthen communities. Thank you.

We would also like to bring two other things to your attention. Many of you participated in our Christmas Calendar fundraiser in 2025 — thank you! This month, GlobalGiving is running another matching fund campaign: the Little by Little Campaign, 17–20 March, for gifts up to $50. Keep an eye out for this opportunity!

If you would like more regular and frequent updates than you receive here, please follow our new WhatsApp Channel — the link is also below.

Last but not least, to all of you — and especially to the women — Happy International Women’s Day on 8th of March! Empowering women is especially important to us at Operation Mercy, so join us in celebrating our female staff and women everywhere this March.

Yours,
Andrea

We're Celebrating Women in March

Little X Little Campaign is coming 17 - 20 March

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Feb 3, 2026
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