12,000 families living at the informal settlement (slum) of coastal Baseco on the fringe of Manila City are constantly hit by typhoons, tidal waves and extreme high tides. Floods are persistent menace to the 52 hectare settlement, exacerbated by the tonnes of rubbish...
Mercy Relief (MR) is taking its efforts to groom future humanitarians and young volunteers beyond Singapore. The humanitarian relief and development organisation signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), and finalised...
Singapore-born humanitarian relief and development NGO, Mercy Relief (MR), saw the successful launch of the S$170,000 Skills Training and Enterprise Programme (STEP) in Phnom Penh yesterday. The STEP included the construction of a 120-square-metre training block and...
Amidst its ongoing aid efforts for the quake-victims in Sichuan, Mercy Relief (MR) joined hands with tech-social company AGplus Technologies Pte Ltd to roll out a series of appropriate water innovations at the Singaporean humanitarian NGO’s Toa Payoh office today....
Ten days after Sichuan province was rocked and rattled by a 6.6-magnitude earthquake, displacing more than a quarter million people, Singaporean humanitarian NGO Mercy Relief (MR) continues to personally procure and deliver aid supplies to the affected communities....
Narrow and winding roads twirling around and across mountains with deep ravines and overhanging rock structures, are common settings which surround aid workers in their daily journeys to reach quake survivors in the worst-affected counties of Lushan and Baoxing during...
