Project Mercy Inc

Programs: Project mercy operates the glenn c. Olsen primary general hospital, which provides surgical procedures, pediatric and labor wards and diagnostic services for those within the yetebon community and surrounding area. To date, the facility serviced more than 70,000 patients and performed hundreds of surgeries, including those performed by volunteer medical teams. Additionally, community health related instructions are delivered on topics such as personal hygiene and sanitation, nutrition, communicable and non-communicable disease control hits/tips, etc. By the hospital. People come from far away due to the excellent care provided, such that it services an area with approximately 1. 5 million people. Patients in the hospital voluntarily receive prayers from nurses and/or doctors as part of their holistic care and service. A new health science college was opened in the fall of 2014 which provides training in midwifery. The goal is to train new midwives through an intense and accelerated one-year program and provide short-term (5 to 10 day) training for current, in-service, health care professionals. At the end of its first year, the health science college successfully graduated 100% of its students - all of whom passed the certification of competency (coc) exams administered by the government. The second cohort of 51 students was enrolled in the early spring of 2016. At the conclusion of the one-year accelerated program for midwifery (for those students that had already attended a three-year clinical nursing curriculum), forty-three out of the fifty-one graduates achieved the highest ranking of coc level 4 certification. Graduations for the second cohort were held in the fall of 2017 and the third cohort of students started class the first quarter of 2018.

the medhane-alem school has roughly 1,400 students enrolled in pre- kindergarten through grade 12, and there are over two hundred graduates of the high school who are currently enrolled in various universities within ethiopia or graduated and serving their country. The school meal program also provides two meals per school day to students in pre-k to 8th grade. Where project mercy's school was the first ever and only opportunity for children to receive formal education in the area, there are now five additional schools serving the rural villages in and around yetebon. Project mercy supports some of these additional schools with enhancements like new buildings to improve the quality of learning. Many of the students give back to the community by teaching literacy, hiv/aids prevention, family planning, basic arithmetic and back yard gardening to families in the hard to reach mountain areas surrounding yetebon. Thousands of people have benefited from this initiative, and more than 8,000 can now read and write for the first time because of these programs.

launched in 2006, the chacha dairy cattle breeding project is project mercy's primary focus in the highlands of the amhara region. Crossbreeding jersey with indigenous cattle has resulted in increased milk production by up to 12 quarts per day, compared to the 2 quarts produced by the local breeds. The increased milk production is improving children's nutrition and also providing higher incomes for local families. Additional funding and expertise continues to be invested in a dairy cattle breeding program, which is dramatically increasing the milk production through successful crossbreeding and artificial insemination. Barns have been constructed on the 350-acre site in cha cha, ethiopia, the new water well was made operational, and equipment is in place to also plant and assist with crop management. Local, poor, farmer families receive a cross-bred heifer when that heifer is six months pregnant. After caring for and getting acclimated with their new heifer for approximately three months, beneficiaries start enjoying nutritional and financial benefits of having an animal that gives more than four times the daily milk yield vs indigenous cows. Since the beginning of distribution until now, 88 families have received a crossbred heifer35 of whom took their heifer home in 2017.

a skills enhancement program is empowering women and men from the community by training them in marketable skills that they can use to earn an income. Women are being trained in traditional spinning of cotton, weaving baskets, creating embroidered table linens and making elegant jewelry. Men are learning masonry, construction material fabrication, carpentry and metal working. In addition to learning a valuable trade, every individual enrolled in our skills enhancement program must also learn basic reading, writing, and arithmetic. It is important to teach them these skills to help them make a better living and eventually run their own businesses. Several years ago, project mercy embarked on an orphan and foster care program called the "children's institute" in response to a request by the local government of the oromia region. The plan provided for a nurturing environment for vulnerable young children in a family-like setting of one house mother and up to six children per home. The location of the project mercy children's institute is at legatafo, just inside the eastern edge of the addis ababa city limits. Unfortunately, this program is on-hold due to the new city's mayor's decision. Project mercy continues to care for vulnerable and abandoned children in yetebon.