30 Years
Mercy Corps recently commemorated their 30th anniversary and founder Dan O’Neill has a great piece on the circumstances that led to the organization’s inception.
Excerpt below, full post here
A friend recently shook my hand vigorously saying, “Congratulations on celebrating Mercy Corps’ 30th anniversary!” I thanked him and went on to say that I would phrase his comment a bit differently. But I’ll get back to that later in the story.
As the decade of the 1970s came to a close, a horrifying slaughter swept the country of Cambodia capturing the rapt attention of the world in what would come to be known as the “killing fields.” The radical communist Khmer Rouge launched a massive wave of barbarism across the stricken nation, killing as many as 2.2 million innocent men, women and children while forcing more than 600,000 refugees into exhile, mostly into Thailand.
Week after week images of the dead and the dying filled the global media. “How could this be allowed to happen before the eyes of the entire world?” I wondered. In November 1979, First Lady Rosalynn Carter traveled to the Thailand-Cambodia border to witness the devastation first hand.
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