Mercy & Sharing Village

Become a ‘Sister Church’ with Mercy & Sharing

Mercy & Sharing is inviting your congregation to become a sister church for the Mercy & Sharing Village Community Church. Through your prayers financial support, you will partner with a congregation on the front lines of fighting poverty, illiteracy, despair, illness, abandonment and the Voodoo culture.  More »

Mercy & Sharing Village at Williamson is a 17-acre tract of land owned by Mercy & Sharing and located approximately 30 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince. The campus includes three residential care buildings (housing 121 orphans), two school buildings, a chapel building with office space, a generator building, a guard tower, security gate with perimeter security walls, and two water wells. We have a 10,000-gallon per day water filtration system that is open to the community daily and provides clean water for 150 families.

The Mercy & Sharing Learning Academy hosts 250 students in the morning. 40 of these students are orphans who live at Mercy & Sharing Village and the remaining 210 students are from the community. All of these children would otherwise not be in school were it not for Mercy & Sharing. In the afternoon, the Mercy & Sharing Learning Academy is home to 53 students enrolled in the Technical and Trade School.

Additions in 2011 to the Williamson campus include the Rehabilitation and Therapy Center and the Technical and Trade School. The Rehabilitation and Therapy Center will enable disabled children and young adults from the orphanage to have the best physical, occupational and speech therapy available. The Technical and Trade School will provide vocational training for young adults in sewing, agriculture, auto mechanics, small business management and computers. This vocational training specifically targets skills needed to find employment in Haiti.

The Girls’ orphanage (pink building in the top photo) is named Lisa’s House. Construction of this building was made possible by a generous grant from the Lisa Wendel Memorial Fund.

Job Creation in Haiti: The Mercy & Sharing

Technical and Trade School

Technical and Trade School provides vocational training for young adults in agriculture, auto mechanics, and small business management. This vocational training specifically targets skills needed to find employment in Haiti. In the fall, Mercy & Sharing will expand enrollment to 100 students and add sewing to the curriculum. All courses of study are two year programs designed to enable graduate to earn income after graduation.

The only way to break the cycle of despair in Haiti is to educate children and young adults to provide for themselves. The Technical and Trade School is a two-year accredited program that prepares young adults to earn a living when they turn 18 years old. Mercy & Sharing has researched the local area to determine which skills are in demand and will offer income-producing jobs for graduates.

Small business management gives students the skills they need for the commercial world. Coursework will include basic computer software, Internet usage, fundamental bookkeeping, basic banking, marketing, and other business topics. Food for the Poor has generously donated all of the computers and the kids are already hard at work learning new things!

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