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- EIN 54-2124269
- (240) 793-3988
- 1500 35th St Nw Washington DC 20007-2700 USA
- mercyproject.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community Clinics, Economic Development, Education, Health, International, International Economic Development, Microfinance
Mission: The mission of the mercy center foundation is providing access to clean water and health care with health care clinics, secondary educational opportunities for girls education and micro-enterprise initiatives in lare, kenya. In 2011, the mercy center established a school for girls secondary education and is working to complete water, housing and classroom readiness programs for a new generation. These programs include technology partnerships and future exchanges. The school educates 380 girls who board full time. The mercy center foundation continues to support development of more bore holes for water access for the region. Micro-enterprise programs are advancing agro-business initiatives that will help to build and strengthen cooperatives of farmers, women co-ops for successful agro-business markets. Training and partnerships with private, public and international partnerships are sought.
Programs: In 2016-17 mcf usa raised funds to start the construction of a new dormitory building for 500 mercy girls, on the lare, kenya campus. The effort began with the annual holiday end of year appeal which was very successful and continued with 2 races, several parish appeals and a mission trip. The 4th annual mercy 5 k was held in the spring'17 and the 1st annual georgetown half marathon was in october 2017. The races are annual events and are very successful fundraisers and expand the level of interest in the education of the mercy girls. Sister rose also began doing parish appeals by invitation of parish pastors. Sister rose presents for 10 minutes the mercy story followed by a fund raising appeal. Large and small every parish appeal is successful. In july 2017 a commissioned by christ (cbc) mission trip took 20 missionaries from the arlington diocese to the kenyan campus for a service project assisting in the dormitory construction. A week of service and interacting with the mercy girls was extremely popular and very successful from all perspectives. Cbc and mcf usa has scheduled a 2nd mission trip for july 2018. The cbc makes a large contribution and there is revenue from missionaries room and board to the mercy center. These activities are annual in nature and are all very well documented with videos and photographs for our website to share with all our missionaries, runners, contributors and benefactors.