Program areas at Haiti Children
Orphanages: Mercy & Sharing owns a well-secured, 17-acre campus with 35,000 square feet of living space, cafeteria, chapel, and storage warehouse, therapy center, disabled school, laboratory and other accessory buildings. The williamson campus houses 106 healthy, disabled and terminally ill Children most of whom were originally abandoned and left to die. Mercy & Sharing has developed a systemized approach to ministering to the needs of each child. The goal is for each child to become as independent and self sufficient as possible within their own limits.
Education: Mercy & Sharing schools (the learning academy) employ haitians as teachers who currently teach 297 students who otherwise would not be in school. The curriculum is based on the curriculum established by the government of Haiti: science, math, geography, history, french, and grammar. In addition, a significant part of the curriculum aims to teach life skills, health and hygiene and concepts of integrity, community responsibility and participatory democracy. As part of the childrens' daily educational experience, Mercy & Sharing provides all students with a hot nutritious meal and clean water five days a week, year-round. All students are also part of a vaccination program in partnership with the haitian ministry of health.
Medical: Mercy & Sharing cares for over 66 Children with disabilities who need medical care, physical and occupational therapy.nutrition programs: Mercy & Sharing operates seven different feeding programs at their schools, clinic, and orphanages and in two small villages in the cap haitian area of northern Haiti. Mercy & Sharing cooks and serves 3,443 meals every week. Each meal offers a grain, a protein (meat or dry fish), and one or two vegetables. Clean water is always provided. The meals vary in nature but always provide balanced nutritional value.