November 2017 by Rupert Wolfe Murray
Perhaps the most impressive aid agency in the UK.I am a biased reviewer as I set up the NGO that got absorbed by Mercy Corps in the mid 1990s, but I am very proud that it has grown from strength to strength and it has flourished in a very competitive fundraising market in the UK. It feels wrong to use these business terms when describing this type of work but it is a sign of the times that the NGO sector in general, and fundraising in particular, has in fact become competitive.The good thing is that Mercy Corps have maintained a really high quality of work all over the world. Sustaining that over the decades is an incredible achievement.I lost contact with them for many years, not wanting to interfere with the new management, but made contact in 2016. This year (2017) I visited their office in Kathmandu and was really impressed with their approach, which is to offer a complex range of services to remote communities in difficulty.If you're thinking about donating to them or volunteering for them, don't hesitate. You would struggle to find a better organisation.
