The climate crisis is impacting farmers around the world. By MIDNIGHT
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[ Season ]Season of Giving

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gift to Mercy Corps during this 72-hour challenge. Help
us reach our goal to raise $120,000 by midnight to help people facing
crises in Indonesia and around the world.

Dear Friend,

Just before the COVID‑19 pandemic shut down airports and cities around the
world, I traveled to Indonesia to photograph the work our teams are doing
in Java, an island between Bali and Sumatra, and the economic center of
the nation. Java is an incredibly lush, fertile place ripe for farming,
but chronic climate crises like droughts, heat waves and floods are
putting its citizens at risk and threatening the entire country’s
development.

My travels took me to a small village on the outskirts of Banyuwangi, a
city on the eastern coast of Java that’s surrounded by volcanoes. There, I
met a young farmer named Roni, who has first-hand experience with these
extreme shifts in weather. He showed me around his farm, plucked a ripe
dragon fruit from a tree and sliced it open. The inside was pink,
refreshing and delicious. After sharing the fruit, we sat on his porch
with his farmer group and talked about how the changing climate is making
it difficult to keep his farm productive and his family fed.

[ Indonesia ]Indonesia
The success of Roni’s crops determines his ability to provide for his wife
and daughter.
"As a farmer, I often face obstacles related to the change of seasons and
weather," Roni explained. Longer dry spells and heavier rain are having
devastating effects on his income, decreasing what his farm produces and
making him unable to meet his family’s basic needs. As a new father to a
3-month-old daughter, it’s more critical than ever that Roni be able to
cope with the changing climate.

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With the generous help of humanitarians
like you, our team provided
Roni and his farmer group with not only pesticides and training, but with
amazing weather-monitoring technology that tells farmers when to plant and
treat their crops. This tech gives farmers like Roni the ability to boost
their harvest and their income, so they can better care for their
families.

[ Indonesia ]Indonesia
A monitoring station provided by Mercy Corps helps Roni’s farmer group
better care for their crops.
Our teams are hard at work helping farmers in other countries, as well:

• In the Democratic Republic of Congo, our team has established farmer
field schools and is providing technical agricultural training to
Congolese so they can increase their food production.
• In Kenya, where half the country has been suffering from a drought
emergency since at least 2017, we’ve implemented a free mobile
platform that helps smallholder farmers improve productivity and
income.
• In Timor-Leste, our team is working with rural farmers to build small
fish ponds to tackle the problem of devastating weather events that
ruin harvests and leave families without food or income.

[ [link removed] ]We set a goal to raise $120,000 to
fund our global team’s work responding to emergencies, rebuilding after
disasters and investing in long-term good like supporting rural farmers
around the world — but we’re still falling short of our goal and the
deadline is tonight. Can we count on you to make your first gift to Mercy Corps today?

While I can’t visit our global teams and capture their impact on film
during this pandemic, I’ve been in touch with them and can tell you that
their work continues — in spite of the challenges COVID‑19 brings. Your
gift today would mean so much to so many families around the world.
[ [link removed] ]Please, make your gift right now.

Thank you for your generosity. It’s truly appreciated by the entire Mercy
Corps team, our global partners, and most importantly, the communities we
serve.

Sincerely,

Ezra Millstein
Mercy Corps Senior Global Photographer

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challenge to raise $120,000. Please, give now.

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