Together, we can help communities prepare for the worst disasters. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Depri, 36, and his nine-month-old daughter Meyra (pictured below) fled their home in Indonesia earlier this year, where they now live in a makeshift tent. Torrential rain flooded the region, displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Water and mud were ceiling high in some places. Entire communities, including Depri’s, were nearly wiped away.

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Clean water has been particularly hard for flood survivors to come by, as wells were either destroyed or inundated with muddy, unsafe water. Mercy Corps is building a water point, which stores trucked-in water and cleans rain water, to help Depri, Meyra and others in their camp access this most basic necessity — clean water, which they can now use for cooking, cleaning, bathing and drinking.

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Responding to climate disasters is just one way we put our donors’ gifts to work. We’re also helping communities prepare for and prevent the worst effects of future climate disasters:

• Protecting against extreme heat. In Niger, where temperatures now regularly exceed 107 degrees, Mercy Corps launched the Cool Roofs Pilot, to coat 25,000 homes and businesses with a low cost, highly reflective substance that stops heat absorption. Not only does this give people respite from the heat, it provides jobs to the trained technicians needed to install it.
• Connecting farmers to resources. In Kenya, farmers and herders are eager to adapt to climate change, as worsening weather makes stable farming and herding much harder. We’re creating open source information campaigns enabling them to communicate with government and agriculture experts to make sure the right resources flow to them quickly.
While we all join together to stop global warming from getting worse, we can’t ignore the people who are already suffering its devastating effects now. Mercy Corps is committed to helping people caught up in climate disasters survive and thrive — building back stronger than before, better prepared to weather the next disaster, so our new climate reality doesn’t become one of constant crises.

Your gift today is an important piece of this puzzle. Please, with just four days left to make an impact this year, send your gift to Mercy Corps right now.

And thank you for choosing to help create the only future that works — one we can all share in together.

Sincerely,

Piva Bell
Mercy Corps Indonesia Response Team Coordinator



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