Mercy Hands Europe

🌿 Behind every olive tree, there's a community! 🫒 Our Olive Oil Project is bringing people together to support farmers, preserve traditions, and strengthen livelihoods. Small steps. Stronger communities. 💚 🤝 With IACO and the generous support of EA Foundation. #Syria

🍌🌱 First steps towards sustainable fruit production in Ethiopia! 2 hectares approved for future cultivation in Dassenech, building on our Eco-Irrigation Project. Thanks to Coromandel Foundation & Basel-Stadt for supporting #SustainableAgriculture and local livelihoods!

🌿 Year 2 of our Olive Oil Project begins in Al-Bab, Syria! IACO is conducting field visits to register and verify 45 olive farmers for the next phase of support. Thanks to IACO and EA Foundation. #Syria #OliveFarming #AlBab

🌱 Building brighter futures in Ethiopia! Through WAP II, 50 young people (21 women) completed a 3-day training in entrepreneurship, local value chains and financial management. 💙 Skills for sustainable livelihoods! #MercyHandsEurope #YouthEmpowerment #Ethiopia

Our Banana Value Chain Project is taking shape in Ethiopia! Following our kick-off meeting with ASE, we are working towards sustainable farming, improved irrigation and stronger livelihoods in Dassenech. 🙏 Thanks to Fondazione Coromandel & @BaselStadt for making this possible!

☀️ In Qabasin, Omar al-Hussein’s solar irrigation runs around 10 hours a day, watering 200–250 olive trees daily and reducing reliance on costly diesel. Thanks to IACO and EA_Foundation for supporting resilient farming. #SolarEnergy #SustainableAgriculture #Syria

🍲 Our emergency response delivered hot meals and potable water to people in and around hospitals in Gaza, helping meet an immediate need and offering a moment of care and dignity. 🙏 Thanks to our donor @seedcharity_ and our implementing partner @ihhinsaniyardim.

🐝 Building skills for #sustainablebeekeeping in Bibugn Woreda! 50 traditional beekeepers (20 women & 30 men) received practical training in top-bar hives, colony transfer, hive management, pest control, hygienic honey production & marketing. 🍯🌼 #Beekeeping #Ethiopia

☀️ Solar energy is powering essential healthcare in Al-Bab, from ambulance coordination to chronic disease care. Thank you to IACO and @NextEFoundation for supporting cleaner, reliable healthcare. 🏥🌱 #SolarEnergy #Healthcare #Syria

Behind every olive tree is a story of resilience. In Al-Bab, Syria, our Olive Oil Project helps farmers protect their livelihoods and sustain local production. One farmer shares what this support means to his community. Thanks to IACO and EA-Foundation. #Syria #OliveFarming

SELAM, A LEGAL CREDIT AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION The WAP project and District Cooperative Office created a new legal savings and credit association with 355 CoLF members, including 313 women. It will promote #savings, provide #microloans, #rollingfunds & #sustainablelivelihoods.

What does food assistance mean beyond the numbers? In Gaza, our partner @ihhinsaniyardim continue working to deliver food to people who need it. A special thank you to our donor, @seedcharity_ , for their trust and generous support, which made this response possible.

SUCCESS STORY, THE SEEDS OF FREEDOM 🌱 One story, part of #WAPII in Ethiopia: strengthening water access, #sustainableagriculture and community #resilience with Agri Service Ethiopia Thanks to @VilleDeGeneve, Collonge-Bellerive, Vandœuvres & Chêne-Bourg. mercyhandseurope.org/donate-…

We are back in #Gaza. Thanks to SEED Charity’s generous support, Mercy Hands Europe helped facilitate this new response, implemented on the ground by our new partner @IHH. Over 90 days, 41,580 hot meals will be prepared and delivered in extremely challenging conditions. 🤝

🕊️ 35 women-headed households affected by conflict received essential food assistance and edible oil as part of our psychosocial support and recovery activities in Ethiopia. Thanks to @VilleDeGeneve, @CollongeBellerive, Vandœuvres, Chêne-Bourg, and ASE. #Ethiopia

💧 Sometimes the most meaningful project update isn’t a report — it’s a thank-you letter. The WASH Committee of Woinwuha Village 1 wrote to share what access to clean water is changing for their community. #WASH #CleanWater #Ethiopia #CommunityImpact

A new hand-dug well has been successfully completed in Bibugn, Ethiopia, as part of the WAP II project.🎉 This well was funded thanks to the generosity of all the participants of @RaceforGift. Thank you to everyone — your generosity is changing lives !🙏💙 #RaceForGift #WAPII

Our solar irrigation units are hard at work, serving ~10 farmers each per month and irrigating up to 250 trees a day 💧 Fully booked through the month, with new lists already forming for next! Thanks to our partners IACO & @NextEFoundation 🙏 #SolarAlBab #RenewableEnergy

25 hectares of degraded land have been identified for rehabilitation - tree-planting activities are underway ! Thanks to our partner ASE and for the contributions of @ville_de_geneve, Commune de Collonge-Bellerive, Commune de Vandœuvres and Commune de Chêne-Bourg! #Ethiopia

One year of progress for olive farmers in North-West Syria 🌿 These results mark an important step toward a stronger future for olive production in North-West Syria Thanks to IACO & the EA Foundation for their support🙏 #ResilientAgriculture #NorthWestSyria #OliveSustainability