Gender Equality Sweden Project #30892

Partnering to build hope, capacity, and community

by Operation Mercy

Project Report | Mar 5, 2026
Our 2025 Impact Report is LIVE!

By Andrea Vogt | International Director Operation Mercy

Impact Report

Dear Operation Mercy community,

Can you imagine that Operation Mercy connects with 1,600 people a day across 10 countries, from Pakistan to Morocco?

For the first time, we asked our Country Directors not only how many participants were involved in their projects in 2025 — 53,872 — but also how often they connected with these individuals throughout the year. The answer: among those 53,872 people, we recorded 605,900 interactions. That makes more than 1,600 connections a day — amazing, isn’t it?

But we didn’t stop there. We also asked: how deep are these interactions? Are they simply a transfer of knowledge or aid given, or are they deep engagements that affect a person’s whole life?

We found that 46% of engagements were classified as deep, and 1% even as intensive. A further 13% were practical engagements, including vocational training, workshops, technical instruction, and coaching sessions.

If you would like to read more about these numbers — and the stories behind the transformational impact of Operation Mercy’s work — please check out our Impact Report using the link below.

You have helped us restore hope, build capacity, and strengthen communities. Thank you.

We would also like to bring two other things to your attention. Many of you participated in our Christmas Calendar fundraiser in 2025 — thank you! This month, GlobalGiving is running another matching fund campaign: the Little by Little Campaign, 17–20 March, for gifts up to $50. Keep an eye out for this opportunity!

If you would like more regular and frequent updates than you receive here, please follow our new WhatsApp Channel — the link is also below.

Last but not least, to all of you — and especially to the women — Happy International Women’s Day on 8th of March! Empowering women is especially important to us at Operation Mercy, so join us in celebrating our female staff and women everywhere this March.

Yours,
Andrea

We're Celebrating Women in March

Little X Little Campaign is coming 17 - 20 March

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Feb 3, 2026
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By Andrea Vogt | International Director Operation Mercy

Dec 24, 2025
Giving Thanks for 2025

By Andrea Vogt | International Director Operation Mercy

Dear friends of Operation Mercy

a final greeting from me to you before the holiday season. A special welcome to all new members of this community - who joined the updates through the recent Advent Calendar fundraiser - thanks for participating so generously!

I will update you on Operation Mercy's work and how we build hope, capacity and community about every three month through these newsletters.

The year 2025 was special in many ways we had struggles especially with funding for North Macedonia and our international functions but we also saw amazing breakthroughs, a string community of learning and new steps in being and promoting the type of community we want to see.

The final highlight of the year was a in-depth project evaluation in North Macedonia where after 8 years we are shifting gears and are asking the community and ourselves what is next.

Our newest Team member in the international office focusing on monitoring and evaluation went to visit the team and met with current and former staff, project participants, community members ...

It is amazing to see the deeper impact the projects have made - we already knew that many women had found work through the STEP training, and had less back pain due to Hope and health, that came out of the annual reporting clearly.

But what we heard now really encouraged us:

Because of you the community has more hope - you are a shining light, a star, the sun for women in this community. - was a recurring theme. Wow talk about restoring hope - we are so thankful to get this climbs into the long term change we are part of.

One former staff we had not seen for years, shared that the lessons learned in the Operation Mercy Team, carried her through the hardest time of her life and are now foundations for the future. We had no idea what was going on in this woman's life, but the hope and community she experienced the capacity we build in her, the values she learned - carried her through.

Sometimes change happens in a place we don't even see it. Sometimes it takes a long time - but it is there and it will break through.

With this I wish you a blessed Christmas season and happy new year - a personal experience of Light and new hope breaking through where ever you are.

Yours Andrea

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