Project Mercy Inc.

“Demeke telke-wold marta gabre-tsadick co-ceo ceo spouse bete demeke marta gabre-tsadick director ceo son priscilla brown marta gabre-tsadick director ceo daughter”

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“The vision of project mercy is to "renew the heart of a nation by freeing people from physical and spiritual poverty". Their mission is to transform how people live and think and build strong, self-sufficient communities in ethiopia and beyond through new knowledge, better health, sustainable food sources and strengthened character for all people as a living example of the love of jesus christ. This international ministry was started in 1977 to provide emergency relief and relocation assistance to ethiopian refugees. At its peak, the ministry grew to reach seven countries in africa with its focus on assisting displaced refugees in djibouti, guinea, ivory coast, kenya, liberia, malawi, and sudan. In 1993 the organization shifted its focus to creating a relief and development model that can be used by others to help break the cycle of famine and poverty in communities. They have taken an integrated and holistic community development approach in aiding rural communities in ethiopia with a variety of programs to address both the physical and spiritual needs of the areas.”

“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 95,000patients and performed hundreds of surgeries, including those performed by volunteer medical teams. More than 1200 of those served in 2019 were mothers who recieved antenatal/postnatal care, and 557 of them gave birth at our hospital. 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 52 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. The third cohort of 43 students started class the first quarter of 2018 with 42 of those graduating in the summer of 2019, making total graduates 111 by the end of 2019.”

“The medhane-alem school has roughly 1674 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 9,500 can now read and write for the first time because of these programs.”

“Additional funding and expertise continue 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, 130 families have received a crossbred heifer17 of whom took their heifer home in 2019. Since each of the six-month pregnant heifers gave birth successfully, with an estimate of 5 to 6 members per family approximately 715 parents & children were beneficiaries. In reference to milk for the children and income for the family, the impact of this program is expanding to reach a much larger target audience. Also, we added 18 peaople to our young adult (ages 18 to 24) work initative by distributing 44 bulls that these young people will raise and take to market.”

“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 and creating embroidered table linens. 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.”

“ETHIOPIA”