Friend — It’s evening already, and we’re only halfway to our one-day $74,326 goal. We must meet this goal by MIDNIGHT if we’re going to stay on track to hitting our incredibly important, overall fundraising goal for December, the most critical fundraising month of the year for us.

Midnight Deadline

Match My Gift

Make a tax-deductible gift of $10 or more today and it will be MATCHED by a group of generous donors, up to $130,000. Every dollar you give will go twice as far to help combat hunger and malnutrition, provide clean water, create access to education and safe spaces, and build stronger, more resilient communities.


and can provide emergency aid kits to people facing the aftermath of disaster


and can rush water filtration tablets, soap, and hygiene training to communities battling water-borne disease


and can provide refugees with emergency funding they need to restart their lives


and can help train farmers how to grow better, stronger crops to feed their families and their communities


and can help provide inclusive education and protection for children living in a crisis zone

This match is funded by a group of Mercy Corps supporters from around the country — Sandi from Oregon, Manuel from New Mexico and many others — who hope to inspire others to give. We need the help of every humanitarian out there to meet this important goal, so that we can reach even more people in the new year.

Thank you for standing with us, and for giving what you can.


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From: Alan Glasgow, Mercy Corps <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:09 AM
Subject: What if fighting hunger depends on something you can’t predict?

For Cazmira, a little help was all she needed. That’s true for so many people we work with.

Give a little help this holiday season — for people at risk of hunger all around the world.

Your gift will be DOUBLED, up to $130,000, but ONLY through December 30. 		Match My Gift

$130,000 match is on the table. Multiply your impact now ▸



Cazmira, a farmer and mother of eight, was born in Timor-Leste, one of the hungriest places in the world. Extreme weather conditions make farming difficult, yet most people still rely on small-scale, local agriculture to survive. On average, farmers can only grow eight months of food each year. When the food runs out, people can starve.

A lot of people would turn away from Cazmira and the people of Timor-Leste. Shut their eyes. Cover their ears. "Too hard." "Lost cause." But not us. And not you either.

Match My Gift



We know we can do better, because together we see the people who live in tough places, we respect their humanity, learn how best to help them, roll up our sleeves and dig in together.

Your tax-deductible, year-end gift to Mercy Corps — doubled thanks to a dollar-for-dollar, $130,000 match! — will help mothers like Cazmira keep her family fed and safe. Please, make your gift today.

Cazmira in East Timor
Cazmira lives in a remote mountain village in Timor-Leste. Farmers like Cazmira are going hungry as the dry seasons here are getting longer and the rains are becoming harder to predict.

Cazmira already faces tough challenges farming in Timor-Leste, but the reality is that global warming is making a difficult climate even harder to navigate. The rains are shorter and less predictable, making it hard to know when to plant. For Cazmira and her family, planting too early or too late could mean life or death.

But all is not lost for Cazmira. Working with Mercy Corps, she’s learned to grow crops that are more resilient in Timor-Leste’s severe climate and build bamboo walls to protect her gardens from landslides and flash floods that increasingly plague her community.

The people who benefit from our emergency aid and anti-poverty programs — people like Cazmira — they’re already doing everything they can to survive. But in almost every case, to get beyond just surviving, they need some help.

This holiday season, your year-end gift to Mercy Corps could be the compassionate help the next Cazmira needs to get out of poverty and beat malnutrition, to not only survive but thrive, right where they live. Make your gift now, and it will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $130,000.

Support Families in Need

We have the tools and knowledge to help people living in even the most difficult places lead safe, healthy and long lives. We just need the resources to reach them — resources Mercy Corps donors provide.

Sincerely,

Alan Glasgow
Regional Director | Asia



We know you’re hearing a lot from us these days. The reason is simple: Every dollar we raise right now helps us save more people’s lives as we try to meet unprecedented need around the world. If you’ve already made your gift or would rather not get our year-end emails, click here to stop receiving email until January.
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