In September 2003, Mercy Relief was strategically launched by then-Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, as an independent charitable nongovernmental humanitarian organisation and conferred the Institute of Public Character (IPC) status to have a greater outreach and impact to the global community.
In response to the eruption's health risks, ASAR Humanity and Mercy Relief joined forces to deliver aid to Sungai Pua, Agam Regency, on December 14th, 2023.
Mercy Relief responded swiftly, collaborating with the Citizens' Disaster Response Center (CDRC) and the Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation, Inc. (MISFI) to deliver aid.
An additional rapid needs assessment was conducted, leading to a subsequent distribution at an informal displacement site on a hilltop housing families who feared aftershocks and planned to stay for a month despite authorities advice to return home.
Mercy Relief responded with emergency aid for the thousands left without shelter and basic necessities, as numerous buildings were destroyed across multiple provinces, including Kahramanmaraş, Adıyaman, and Hatay.
Mobile kitchens were deployed to provide hot meals, and essential supplies such as food packages, hygiene sets, and coal burners were distributed to those in need.
In response to the appeal from the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP), Mercy Relief disbursed S$74,407 to provide ration food hampers and tarpaulins to 5,493 people, addressing the most pressing needs of affected households.
By working with their local partner, Human Aid Bangladesh Foundation (HABF), Mercy Relief also distributed food packs to 650 households, benefiting around 3,250 people.
Collaboration with the local organisation North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS), Mercy Relief provided non-food items, hygiene kits, and water filtration systems to 700 vulnerable families in India.
Torrential rainfall for 5 days eroded fish farms and agricultural lands, affecting the community's main source of livelihood and food supply.
Heavy rains exacerbated flooding and landslides, upending lives and devastating farming and fishing communities which provide a major source of income and livelihoods.
Due to the monsoon season, heavy downpours and tropical storms have led to landslides and flash floods, leaving infrastructures wrecked and thousands displaced in Vietnam and the Philippines.
[14] Mercy Relief worked with Southern Tagalog People's Response Center to assist the affected communities and delivered hot meals to them.
[15] Mercy Relief worked with Disaster Response Center to conduct needs assessments and delivered hot meals to the affected communities.
Mercy Relief worked with Disaster Response Center and Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation to conduct needs assessments and deliver hot meals to the affected communities.
One of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in a decade, Typhoon Hagibis left Honshu island in destruction when it brought heavy rainfalls that triggered landslides and floods.
A team was deployed to the scene with YAKKUM Emergency Unit, a local NGO, to distribute food packages, water, shelter kits, and LED lamps to the affected communities in Sigi, Palu, and Donggala district.
A volcano eruption between the islands of Java and Sumatra caused an underground landslide and triggered a tsunami that struck coastal areas —Pandeglang, Serang, South Lampung and Tanggamus— hard.
400 relief kits which include basic food and hygiene items were distributed in the Ernakulam and Alappuzha districts of Kerala and 36 household water wells were restored for local families.
On 23 July night, a dam under construction in the Attapeu Province of Laos collapsed and water equivalent to 2 million Olympic-size swimming pools obliterated villages downstream.
Mercy Relief, together with its ground partners—Disaster Response Center and Tarabang para sa Bicol (TABI)— provided hot meals to the affected communities.
Attacks launched by Arakhine Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in Rakhine, Myanmar, in August 2017 have forced more than 607,000 refugees to flee to Bangladesh on foot.
[40] The sudden influx of refugees led to a dire shortage in supply of food, shelter, water in the camps and makeshift settlements at the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Working closely with the Singapore Armed Forces,[41] Mercy Relief managed to bring essential supplies worth $270,000 to Bangladesh and deliver them to the troubled survivors.
Mercy Relief also partnered with Human Aid Bangladesh Foundation to operate a health care centre in Bulukhali Camp -9 to provide maternal and child healthcare services for the refugees.
In collaboration with Heart Beat and Rural Development Centre (RDC) in Nepal, Purvanchal Gramin Vikas Sansthan (PGVS) in India, and HEED Bangladesh, a total of 5,761 survivors were reached.
266 mosquito nets were also distributed to the affected villagers to prevent the spread of disease Two earthquake struck Kumomoto in Japan in mid-April of magnitudes of 6.5 and 7.3, these damaged 140,000 homes and displaced 11,000 people.
[52] Mercy Relief also undertook reconstruction projects to provide a secure roof for quake survivors and temporary structures to be used as a school before the onset of the monsoon.
[50][54][55] Up till 28 April 2015, the team has done 27 relief distribution and 8 medical missions, helping individuals living in the rural regions of Kathmandu and other areas of Nepal and about 20,000 beneficiaries.
[72] Following the disaster, Mercy Relief raised $2.6 million for victims, where they spent on operations and logistics, buying essentials and radioactive protective suits for survivors.