For nearly 20 years, I served on the board of directors of Mercy Corps, one of the world’s largest relief and development organizations. During that time, Mercy Corps served more than 500 million people in more than 50 countries, including the most challenging conflict- and disaster-prone regions of the world. The work that Mercy Corps employees and local partners did in Afghanistan during the height of our entanglement led the U.S. ambassador to say that Mercy Corps served American policy interests better and saved more Afghan lives than any organization in the world.
