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- EIN 33-0677892
- (858) 513-1847
- 12648 Cherrywood St Poway CA 92064-6469 USA
- www.projectmercy.net
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Homeless & Housing, Housing Development, Construction & Management
Mission: The goal of project mercy is the improvement of basic living standards and quality of life for impoverished families who live in conditions precarious to their health in the shantytowns of the colonias east of tijuana, mexico.
Programs: Project mercy provided materials and constructed 35 houses. These were wood frame houses with painted plywood exterior built on 16ft by 20ft concrete slabs. 72% of the cost was for construction materials and 10% of the cost was for local labor performing both finishing work and part of the construction and coordinating with local families. Other expenditures were the reimbursement of travel expenses and management services provided by the executive director. Volunteer workers from both the united states and the local mexican community did all the other labor. Families receiving these houses in mexico lay the concrete foundation slabs and place the roofing materials. Volunteers from the united states do most of the carpentry and some of the painting.
project mercy provided plans and materials for the construction of 38 cement block latrines and outhouses. The latrine pits were all built by the recipient families and the wooden outhouses purchased from a local lumber yard which builds the outhouses especially for the project mercy program.
project mercy provided family support by collecting, transporting and distributing donated furniture, carpeting, bedding and food to a number of families in colonias lomas del valle, terrazas del valle, el nino and vista del valle in tijuana, b. C. , mexico.